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Wildfires in Berea

District of Lesotho

Wildfires in Berea

Detected · VIIRS 375 m · Suomi NPP, NOAA-20, NOAA-21 · last 24 hours · updated 2026-10-11 05:23 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 634 km² of Berea at least once. In an average year it detected fire in 84 km², ranking 8th of 10 regions of Lesotho.

84 km²detected in an average year
2024busiest year, 230 km²
2016quietest year, 9.7 km²
Septemberpeak month, 33% of fire-days

Year by year

2012: 12 km2'122013: 81 km2'132014: 130 km2'142015: 46 km2'152016: 9.7 km2'162017: 75 km2'172018: 42 km2'182019: 141 km2'192020: 69 km2'202021: 68 km2'212022: 85 km2'222023: 148 km2'232024: 230 km2'242025: 38 km2'25230 km2

Detected area per year, km². Area of 0.01° cells with at least one detection in the year.

The busiest year was 2024, with 230 km² detected; the quietest was 2016, with 9.7 km². The 2021–2025 average is 104% higher than the 2012–2016 average.

Through the year

January: 0.6%JFebruary: 0.2%FMarch: 0.6%MApril: 0.0%AMay: 1.7%MJune: 3.7%JJuly: 10%JAugust: 28%ASeptember: 33%SOctober: 17%ONovember: 3.7%NDecember: 1.6%D33%

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 78% of the fire-days in the record. The single busiest day was 20 August 2024, with detections in 21 cells.

Ground that burns again

Of the 634 km² with at least one detection, 24% had detections in three or more different years.

Years with a detectionkm²Share
1 year31450%
2 years16826%
3 to 5 years14823%
6 to 10 years4.30.7%
11 years or more0.00.0%

The half-degree square with the most fire-days is centred at -29.25, 28.25 and holds 83% of the region's fire-days.

The figures

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YearDetected km²Fire-days
20121214
20138183
2014130145
20154645
20169.79
20177576
20184243
2019141171
20206971
20216866
20228589
2023148153
2024230262
20253838

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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.

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