Fire near Territoire du Nord (AU)

16.42°S, 130.21°E

What the satellites measured

This fire is not in the last thirty days of the fire list, but detections remain around this point: the curve below is rebuilt from the raw pixels, which are kept for a hundred days.

“Detected extent” is not “burned area”: it is the union of the ground footprints of the satellite pixels, and a pixel counts in full (375 m for VIIRS, 1 km for MODIS) even when only a forest edge is burning. Compared with press figures it is in practice one and a half to three times the area reported. Detections taken at the edge of the scan swath, too coarse to measure anything at all, are excluded. These figures come from thermal detection and are not an official assessment: only the emergency services and the competent authorities are authoritative.

Replay how the fire spread

The map is framed on this fire's footprint and loads only its detections. The timeline below covers the period in which satellites saw it, from the first to the last detection, with twelve hours before and twenty-four after; the ticks on the bar mark the emergency services' announcements that fall within it. The cursor opens on the most powerful pass, and playback replays the whole fire in about thirty seconds. “1 h” shows what is burning within an hour of the chosen moment : the map then follows the power curve below and empties when it falls. “24 h” stacks twenty-four hours : a fire stays visible between two satellite passes, which come two to four times a day. Both are true, but they say different things.

How the radiative power evolved

One point per satellite pass: the sum of the fire radiative power measured over the fire. This is the curve that says whether the fire eased off or picked up again, which no cumulative figure shows. The window covers 30 days; beyond that, clustering would merge two successive fires in the same place.

Fire dynamics

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Satellite passes in detail

Pass	Power summed over the pass	Detections	Sensor
9 October at 07:48	99 MW	13	N
9 October at 07:10	69 MW	7	N21
8 October at 07:29	49 MW	3	N21
8 October at 06:46	42 MW	4	N20
8 October at 06:25	100 MW	12	N
7 October at 19:34	30 MW	6	N
7 October at 18:58	17 MW	9	N21
7 October at 18:13	28 MW	7	N20
7 October at 17:54	16 MW	6	N
7 October at 07:48	75 MW	1	N21
7 October at 07:04	15 MW	2	N20
7 October at 06:44	37 MW	5	N
6 October at 19:15	27 MW	10	N21
6 October at 18:33	53 MW	23	N20
6 October at 18:13	16 MW	8	N
6 October at 17:35	3 MW	1	N21
6 October at 07:25	66 MW	7	N20
6 October at 07:04	229 MW	19	N
6 October at 01:33	272 MW	11	Terra
5 October at 21:15	205 MW	7	Aqua
5 October at 18:52	286 MW	84	N20
5 October at 18:33	529 MW	105	N
5 October at 17:56	1,261 MW	106	N21
5 October at 08:46	42 MW	1	Aqua
5 October at 07:23	166 MW	16	N
5 October at 06:46	940 MW	18	N21
4 October at 20:36	830 MW	21	Aqua
4 October at 19:09	1,454 MW	123	N20
4 October at 18:50	2,521 MW	208	N
4 October at 18:13	1,770 MW	142	N21
4 October at 14:04	119 MW	10	Terra
4 October at 09:46	405 MW	4	Aqua
4 October at 07:42	1,069 MW	87	N
4 October at 07:04	795 MW	69	N21
4 October at 06:19	2,362 MW	119	N20
4 October at 01:54	384 MW	11	Terra
3 October at 19:30	223 MW	44	N20
3 October at 19:09	202 MW	71	N
3 October at 18:33	169 MW	77	N21
3 October at 17:49	137 MW	54	N20
3 October at 07:59	1,137 MW	62	N
3 October at 07:25	373 MW	29	N21
3 October at 06:40	641 MW	67	N20
3 October at 01:14	60 MW	1	Terra
2 October at 21:00	834 MW	14	Aqua
2 October at 19:28	3,848 MW	187	N
2 October at 18:52	3,606 MW	183	N21
2 October at 18:07	2,225 MW	128	N20
2 October at 17:48	830 MW	85	N
2 October at 14:23	371 MW	16	Terra
2 October at 08:31	441 MW	2	Aqua
2 October at 07:42	1,854 MW	97	N21
2 October at 06:57	3,358 MW	170	N20
2 October at 06:38	3,775 MW	136	N
2 October at 06:02	1,163 MW	56	N21
2 October at 02:13	1,056 MW	20	Terra
1 October at 20:21	63 MW	2	Aqua
1 October at 19:09	119 MW	74	N21
1 October at 18:26	172 MW	78	N20
1 October at 18:07	117 MW	70	N
1 October at 13:47	112 MW	8	Terra
1 October at 09:31	49 MW	1	Aqua
1 October at 07:16	43 MW	4	N20
1 October at 06:57	484 MW	23	N
1 October at 06:19	1,038 MW	63	N21
1 October at 01:35	543 MW	21	Terra
30 September at 21:21	529 MW	13	Aqua
30 September at 19:30	1,444 MW	84	N21
30 September at 18:45	769 MW	167	N20
30 September at 18:26	394 MW	158	N
30 September at 17:50	1,842 MW	146	N21
30 September at 14:44	1,001 MW	12	Terra
30 September at 08:54	147 MW	4	Aqua
30 September at 07:36	1,164 MW	100	N20
30 September at 07:16	936 MW	112	N
30 September at 06:40	1,034 MW	79	N21
29 September at 20:43	207 MW	11	Aqua
29 September at 19:05	2,559 MW	229	N20
29 September at 18:43	1,937 MW	248	N
29 September at 18:07	3,508 MW	174	N21
29 September at 14:06	712 MW	27	Terra
29 September at 09:54	156 MW	2	Aqua
29 September at 07:53	409 MW	35	N20
29 September at 07:33	838 MW	60	N
29 September at 06:57	1,049 MW	91	N21
29 September at 06:14	651 MW	56	N20
29 September at 01:54	1,833 MW	49	Terra
28 September at 19:22	204 MW	117	N20
28 September at 19:05	233 MW	109	N
28 September at 18:26	249 MW	114	N21
28 September at 17:41	69 MW	23	N20
28 September at 09:14	211 MW	8	Aqua
28 September at 07:53	714 MW	86	N
28 September at 07:18	394 MW	26	N21
28 September at 06:32	1,481 MW	26	N20
28 September at 06:14	528 MW	27	N
28 September at 01:16	7,803 MW	37	Terra
27 September at 21:04	266 MW	13	Aqua
27 September at 19:22	310 MW	172	N
27 September at 18:45	232 MW	78	N21
27 September at 18:03	11 MW	6	N20
27 September at 14:27	30 MW	2	Terra
27 September at 06:51	51 MW	5	N20
27 September at 06:32	23 MW	3	N
27 September at 02:16	1,005 MW	9	Terra
26 September at 19:05	21 MW	7	N21
26 September at 18:20	61 MW	22	N20
26 September at 17:58	8 MW	3	N
26 September at 13:47	12 MW	1	Terra
26 September at 09:38	366 MW	4	Aqua
26 September at 07:10	39 MW	8	N20
26 September at 06:53	215 MW	16	N
26 September at 06:14	146 MW	10	N21
26 September at 01:37	1,937 MW	40	Terra
25 September at 21:28	189 MW	2	Aqua
25 September at 19:24	169 MW	50	N21
25 September at 18:37	130 MW	78	N20
25 September at 18:20	115 MW	46	N
25 September at 17:41	128 MW	23	N21
25 September at 08:59	121 MW	1	Aqua
25 September at 07:29	1,964 MW	68	N20
25 September at 07:10	2,024 MW	103	N
25 September at 06:34	9,559 MW	119	N21
24 September at 20:49	126 MW	4	Aqua
24 September at 18:58	88 MW	14	N20
24 September at 18:37	59 MW	18	N
24 September at 18:01	28 MW	4	N21
24 September at 07:48	155 MW	16	N20
24 September at 07:27	75 MW	13	N
24 September at 06:53	1,454 MW	72	N21
24 September at 06:08	1,288 MW	22	N20
24 September at 01:56	838 MW	29	Terra
23 September at 19:15	7 MW	3	N20
23 September at 18:56	5 MW	4	N
23 September at 18:20	5 MW	2	N21

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