AURSEEAursee
Wildfires in North-East
Detected · VIIRS 375 m · Suomi NPP, NOAA-20, NOAA-21 · last 24 hours · updated 2026-10-11 07:28 UTC
Follow North-East: fire alerts by email
Fire alerts for North-East
Free. One email when satellites detect fire anywhere in North-East, then at most one update a day while fires continue.
Free. Pick a town and we email you when satellites detect fire within 30 km of it.
Fire history, 2012–2025
Detected · VIIRS S-NPP 375 m · 0.01° cells (~1.1 km) · complete years 2012–2025 · built 2026-09-23
Between 2012 and 2025, VIIRS detected fire in 860 km² of North-East at least once. In an average year it detected fire in 78 km², ranking 8th of 15 regions of Botswana.
Year by year
Detected area per year, km². Area of 0.01° cells with at least one detection in the year.
The busiest year was 2023, with 202 km² detected; the quietest was 2016, with 17 km². The 2021–2025 average is 156% higher than the 2012–2016 average.
Through the year
Share of all fire-days 2012–2025 by month. A fire-day is one cell with a detection on one day.
August, September and October together hold 74% of the fire-days in the record. The single busiest day was 16 October 2021, with detections in 28 cells.
Ground that burns again
Of the 860 km² with at least one detection, 5.1% had detections in three or more different years.
| Years with a detection | km² | Share |
|---|---|---|
| 1 year | 692 | 80% |
| 2 years | 125 | 15% |
| 3 to 5 years | 43 | 5.0% |
| 6 to 10 years | 1.2 | 0.1% |
| 11 years or more | 0.0 | 0.0% |
The half-degree square with the most fire-days is centred at -21.25, 27.75 and holds 48% of the region's fire-days.
The figures
Show the table
| Year | Detected km² | Fire-days |
|---|---|---|
| 2012 | 97 | 99 |
| 2013 | 29 | 27 |
| 2014 | 45 | 41 |
| 2015 | 74 | 69 |
| 2016 | 17 | 16 |
| 2017 | 97 | 90 |
| 2018 | 21 | 18 |
| 2019 | 25 | 25 |
| 2020 | 17 | 18 |
| 2021 | 155 | 138 |
| 2022 | 131 | 135 |
| 2023 | 202 | 200 |
| 2024 | 23 | 23 |
| 2025 | 160 | 148 |
Other regions of Botswana
- North-West13,000 km² in an average year
- Ghanzi6,290 km² in an average year
- Kgalagadi5,220 km² in an average year
- Central2,720 km² in an average year
- Kweneng1,470 km² in an average year
- Southern1,120 km² in an average year
- How these figures are madeDetected area, cells, and the single-satellite record.
Detected area counts every 0.01° cell with at least one VIIRS detection, so a small fire counts as a whole cell and a fire missed by cloud or between passes is absent. Borders: Natural Earth 1:10m. 2012 begins on 20 January.
Nearby regions
- Bulawayo, Zimbabwe152 km
- Matabeleland South, Zimbabwe191 km
- Central266 km
- Midlands, Zimbabwe342 km
- Kgatleng348 km
- Matabeleland North, Zimbabwe368 km