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Wildfires in Lubombo
Detected · VIIRS 375 m · Suomi NPP, NOAA-20, NOAA-21 · last 24 hours · updated 2026-10-12 08:29 UTC
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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 3,210 km² of Lubombo at least once. In an average year it detected fire in 569 km², ranking 4th of 4 regions of Kingdom of eSwatini.
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 2013, with 1,020 km² detected; the quietest was 2016, with 175 km². The 2021–2025 average is 7.9% lower 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.
July, August and September together hold 70% of the fire-days in the record. The single busiest day was 11 August 2012, with detections in 100 cells.
Ground that burns again
Of the 3,210 km² with at least one detection, 37% had detections in three or more different years.
| Years with a detection | km² | Share |
|---|---|---|
| 1 year | 1,210 | 38% |
| 2 years | 803 | 25% |
| 3 to 5 years | 978 | 30% |
| 6 to 10 years | 223 | 6.9% |
| 11 years or more | 3.3 | 0.1% |
The half-degree square with the most fire-days is centred at -26.25, 31.75 and holds 37% of the region's fire-days.
The figures
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| Year | Detected km² | Fire-days |
|---|---|---|
| 2012 | 692 | 790 |
| 2013 | 1,020 | 1,100 |
| 2014 | 918 | 1,014 |
| 2015 | 396 | 454 |
| 2016 | 175 | 179 |
| 2017 | 323 | 336 |
| 2018 | 318 | 341 |
| 2019 | 767 | 855 |
| 2020 | 409 | 432 |
| 2021 | 626 | 768 |
| 2022 | 512 | 685 |
| 2023 | 622 | 666 |
| 2024 | 628 | 736 |
| 2025 | 561 | 590 |
Other regions of Kingdom of eSwatini
- Hhohho1,200 km² in an average year
- Manzini988 km² in an average year
- Shiselweni778 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
- Hhohho49 km
- Manzini74 km
- Shiselweni121 km
- Maputo, Mozambique149 km
- KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa173 km
- Limpopo, South Africa224 km