A vacuum pumping system includes: an evacuation conduit, having a sequence of monitoring zones serially assigned in an exhaust direction; sensors respectively provided to the monitoring zones and independently detecting the conditions of the monitoring zones; heaters respectively provided to the monitoring zones and being paired with the sensors; and a control unit receiving data signals from the sensors, comparing the data signals with a threshold value, and when the data signals from a specific sensor exceed the threshold value, selectively supplying heating power to a heater of the monitoring zone where the specific sensor is provided.