Fire near Territoire du Nord (AU)

21.84°S, 132.49°E · first detected on 25 September at 06:32

What the satellites measured

This fire was tracked from 25 September at 06:32 to 10 October at 18:39, that is 16 days, through 1,520 satellite detections. The detected extent reaches 20,287 ha.

Detected extent: 20,287 ha
Cumulative power: 17,995 MW
Peak power, one pixel: 445 MW
VIIRS and MODIS detections: 1,520
Estimated emissions: 37.6 kt of carbon; Carbon burnt in the 0.1 degree cells (about 10 km) around the fire, from 5 October 2026 to 10 October 2026. An order-of-magnitude estimate from GFAS (ECMWF, Copernicus CAMS): it also counts neighbouring fires in the same cell. Contains modified Copernicus Atmosphere Monitoring Service information (2026).

These four figures cover the polar orbits alone, the ones that measure an area. The pass table below also counts geostationary detections, more frequent but too coarse for geometry, and its power column sums a whole pass where the peak above is that of a single pixel.

“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 18 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
10 October at 18:39	28 MW	9	N
10 October at 18:01	27 MW	5	N21
10 October at 07:46	64 MW	6	N20
10 October at 07:27	10 MW	3	N
9 October at 18:58	10 MW	3	N
9 October at 18:22	9 MW	5	N21
9 October at 17:37	8 MW	6	N20
9 October at 14:02	25 MW	1	Terra
9 October at 07:46	568 MW	52	N
9 October at 07:10	1,608 MW	55	N21
9 October at 06:25	9 MW	1	N20
8 October at 07:27	412 MW	30	N21
8 October at 06:44	706 MW	31	N20
8 October at 06:23	24 MW	5	N
7 October at 07:46	2,165 MW	22	N21
7 October at 07:03	454 MW	32	N20
7 October at 06:44	397 MW	26	N
7 October at 06:06	390 MW	35	N21
6 October at 20:17	33 MW	2	Aqua
6 October at 19:17	109 MW	21	N21
6 October at 18:35	124 MW	43	N20
6 October at 18:13	234 MW	54	N
6 October at 17:37	117 MW	39	N21
6 October at 07:23	242 MW	29	N20
6 October at 07:01	346 MW	45	N
6 October at 01:35	231 MW	13	Terra
5 October at 18:52	184 MW	69	N20
5 October at 18:35	226 MW	87	N
5 October at 17:56	362 MW	91	N21
5 October at 00:57	66 MW	1	Terra
4 October at 20:38	37 MW	3	Aqua
4 October at 19:11	5 MW	2	N20
4 October at 18:52	23 MW	14	N
4 October at 18:16	258 MW	69	N21
4 October at 17:31	107 MW	17	N20
4 October at 07:04	150 MW	6	N21
4 October at 06:19	394 MW	30	N20
4 October at 01:54	153 MW	4	Terra
3 October at 19:09	22 MW	20	N
3 October at 18:35	27 MW	13	N21
3 October at 17:50	79 MW	29	N20
3 October at 07:57	189 MW	13	N
3 October at 07:23	382 MW	32	N21
3 October at 06:38	237 MW	23	N20
3 October at 01:16	9 MW	1	Terra
2 October at 19:30	14 MW	7	N
2 October at 18:54	15 MW	9	N21
2 October at 18:07	16 MW	13	N20
2 October at 17:50	22 MW	16	N
2 October at 06:00	75 MW	7	N21
1 October at 18:28	6 MW	5	N20
1 October at 18:07	5 MW	3	N
1 October at 07:16	40 MW	1	N20
1 October at 06:19	16 MW	2	N21
30 September at 18:45	34 MW	13	N20
30 September at 18:28	20 MW	10	N
30 September at 17:50	2 MW	1	N21
30 September at 07:33	114 MW	25	N20
30 September at 07:14	300 MW	27	N
30 September at 06:38	153 MW	16	N21
29 September at 19:07	21 MW	21	N20
29 September at 18:45	17 MW	14	N
29 September at 18:09	17 MW	11	N21
29 September at 07:53	82 MW	7	N20
29 September at 07:33	191 MW	15	N
29 September at 06:55	189 MW	9	N21
29 September at 06:12	161 MW	22	N20
29 September at 01:56	50 MW	2	Terra
28 September at 19:24	2 MW	1	N20
28 September at 19:05	10 MW	7	N
28 September at 18:28	4 MW	5	N21
28 September at 17:44	4 MW	4	N20
28 September at 09:14	63 MW	3	Aqua
28 September at 07:53	56 MW	9	N
28 September at 07:16	129 MW	13	N21
28 September at 06:32	263 MW	18	N20
28 September at 06:12	251 MW	15	N
27 September at 07:33	101 MW	10	N21
27 September at 06:49	19 MW	3	N20
27 September at 06:29	42 MW	3	N
27 September at 05:53	37 MW	2	N21
26 September at 18:22	1 MW	1	N20
26 September at 17:26	5 MW	2	N21
26 September at 07:10	26 MW	2	N20
26 September at 06:51	57 MW	6	N
26 September at 06:14	107 MW	11	N21
26 September at 01:39	6 MW	1	Terra
25 September at 18:39	4 MW	5	N20
25 September at 18:20	3 MW	2	N
25 September at 17:44	3 MW	2	N21
25 September at 08:59	2,543 MW	9	Aqua
25 September at 07:27	901 MW	19	N20
25 September at 07:08	166 MW	9	N
25 September at 06:32	377 MW	5	N21

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