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The 2024 Western Cape wildfires are a series of forest fires in the City of Cape Town, Western Cape, South Africa.They led to the loss of 52,501 hectares of land, of which 15,587 hectares were on the CapeNature estate. 129 VIIRS fire alerts were reported between September 11, 2023, and September 16, 2024 (high confidence alerts), with 52 VIIRS fire alerts reported in 2024.
The 2021 Table Mountain fire (also known as the Rhodes Memorial fire [2] or Cape Town fire [3] [4]) is a major fire that started on 18 April 2021 [5] in and around Table Mountain National Park and the neighbourhoods of Newlands, [2] Rosebank, Mowbray and Rondebosch in Cape Town, South Africa.
Imitate aftermath of the fires on the hills of Muizenberg overlooking Cape Town. The Muizenberg fire ignited in the afternoon on 1 March. [7] The fire burned through the night and was brought under control until 2am the next morning, when it flared up again. [11]
Residents were evacuated from small coastal towns near Cape Town in South Africa as wildfires swept down from surrounding mountains and burned out of control for a second day on Tuesday.
The wildfire on the slopes near the seaside town of Simon's Town, around 40 kilometers (25 miles) south of Cape Town, threatened houses in t Firefighters battle a wildfire on the slopes of a ...
High winds of 50 km/h caused by the storm fueled around 20 to 30 significant fires that swept through the town of Knysna and surrounding areas in the days after the storm. [5] The fires killed seven people [ 6 ] and displaced around 10,000 [ 7 ] [ 8 ] with around 600 structures in Knysna and Plettenberg Bay being destroyed.
Wildfires have occurred intermittently on the Outer Cape for thousands of years, according to Commission member and Eastham representative David Crary Jr. Crary was the former fire management ...
Fire crews and emergency workers were preparing for a “last stand” if the fire advances into the town, said Rob Fraser, mayor of the Northern Rockies Regional Municipality based in Fort Nelson. Fraser said that less than 100 people remained in town. The wildfire service encouraged those left to leave.