Fire near Territoire du Nord (AU)

22.63°S, 129.21°E · first detected on 10 October at 18:03

What the satellites measured

This fire was tracked from 10 October at 18:03 to 20 October at 07:59, that is 10 days, through 2,223 satellite detections. The detected extent reaches 33,007 ha.

Detected extent: 33,007 ha
Cumulative power: 68,847 MW
Peak power, one pixel: 2,939 MW
VIIRS and MODIS detections: 2,223
Estimated emissions: 92.0 kt of carbon; Carbon burnt in the 0.1 degree cells (about 10 km) around the fire, from 10 October 2026 to 20 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.

Before, after: the burn scar seen from space

Sentinel-2 satellite image of the same area near Territoire du Nord (AU) after the fire, on 20 October 2026

Sentinel-2 satellite image of the area near Territoire du Nord (AU) before the fire, on 27 September 2026

Before · 27 September 2026After · 20 October 2026

Sentinel-2, 10 m resolution. The dates are those of the least cloudy passes available: “after” is not the day after the fire went out, it is the first clear sky that followed. Contains modified Copernicus Sentinel-2 data (2026).

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 12 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
20 October at 10:57	27 MW	1	Him9
20 October at 10:37	29 MW	1	Him9
20 October at 09:47	96 MW	1	Him9
20 October at 09:37	411 MW	1	Him9
20 October at 09:27	1,160 MW	3	Him9
20 October at 09:17	1,683 MW	4	Him9
20 October at 09:07	526 MW	2	Him9
20 October at 08:57	1,090 MW	4	Him9
20 October at 07:59	127 MW	11	N20
20 October at 07:37	283 MW	2	Him9
20 October at 07:04	539 MW	14	N21
20 October at 06:27	205 MW	2	Him9
20 October at 06:19	524 MW	42	N20
20 October at 06:17	77 MW	1	Him9
20 October at 06:07	183 MW	1	Him9
20 October at 05:57	180 MW	1	Him9
20 October at 05:47	474 MW	2	Him9
20 October at 05:37	179 MW	1	Him9
20 October at 05:27	218 MW	1	Him9
20 October at 05:17	763 MW	3	Him9
20 October at 05:07	464 MW	2	Him9
20 October at 04:27	320 MW	2	Him9
20 October at 04:17	1,158 MW	4	Him9
20 October at 04:07	148 MW	2	Him9
20 October at 03:57	615 MW	5	Him9
20 October at 03:47	183 MW	3	Him9
20 October at 03:37	401 MW	4	Him9
20 October at 03:27	71 MW	1	Him9
20 October at 02:47	101 MW	1	Him9
20 October at 02:37	317 MW	2	Him9
20 October at 02:30	738 MW	2	Terra
20 October at 02:27	174 MW	2	Him9
20 October at 02:17	219 MW	2	Him9
20 October at 02:07	409 MW	3	Him9
20 October at 00:57	25 MW	1	Him9
19 October at 20:19	24 MW	1	Aqua
19 October at 19:32	71 MW	30	N20
19 October at 19:11	119 MW	35	N
19 October at 19:07	43 MW	1	Him9
19 October at 18:35	151 MW	43	N21
19 October at 18:27	30 MW	1	Him9
19 October at 17:50	127 MW	52	N20
19 October at 17:47	18 MW	1	Him9
19 October at 17:37	62 MW	3	Him9
19 October at 17:27	153 MW	5	Him9
19 October at 17:17	151 MW	4	Him9
19 October at 16:57	32 MW	1	Him9
19 October at 16:37	77 MW	3	Him9
19 October at 16:27	26 MW	1	Him9
19 October at 16:17	78 MW	3	Him9
19 October at 16:07	192 MW	6	Him9
19 October at 15:57	251 MW	8	Him9
19 October at 15:47	332 MW	7	Him9
19 October at 15:37	1,149 MW	11	Him9
19 October at 15:27	2,733 MW	11	Him9
19 October at 15:17	3,768 MW	9	Him9
19 October at 15:07	2,519 MW	4	Him9
19 October at 14:57	1,974 MW	9	Him9
19 October at 14:47	755 MW	3	Him9
19 October at 14:27	102 MW	2	Him9
19 October at 14:17	713 MW	5	Him9
19 October at 14:07	1,518 MW	7	Him9
19 October at 14:00	1,483 MW	13	Terra
19 October at 13:57	1,040 MW	4	Him9
19 October at 13:47	1,321 MW	7	Him9
19 October at 13:37	1,744 MW	7	Him9
19 October at 13:27	1,348 MW	6	Him9
19 October at 13:17	475 MW	4	Him9
19 October at 13:07	174 MW	2	Him9
19 October at 10:47	56 MW	1	Him9
19 October at 10:17	88 MW	1	Him9
19 October at 09:47	137 MW	1	Him9
19 October at 09:37	165 MW	1	Him9
19 October at 09:27	214 MW	2	Him9
19 October at 09:24	435 MW	5	Aqua
19 October at 07:57	808 MW	34	N
19 October at 07:27	235 MW	1	Him9
19 October at 07:23	1,312 MW	26	N21
19 October at 06:57	189 MW	1	Him9
19 October at 06:38	619 MW	14	N20
19 October at 06:27	336 MW	1	Him9
19 October at 06:17	830 MW	27	N
19 October at 06:17	268 MW	1	Him9
19 October at 05:47	254 MW	1	Him9
19 October at 05:07	491 MW	2	Him9
19 October at 04:57	198 MW	1	Him9
19 October at 04:37	841 MW	2	Him9
19 October at 04:27	1,277 MW	4	Him9
19 October at 04:17	2,357 MW	6	Him9
19 October at 04:07	2,847 MW	9	Him9
19 October at 03:57	2,053 MW	11	Him9
19 October at 03:47	1,905 MW	10	Him9
19 October at 03:37	1,847 MW	9	Him9
19 October at 03:27	1,773 MW	8	Him9
19 October at 03:17	1,353 MW	8	Him9
19 October at 03:07	633 MW	6	Him9
19 October at 02:57	211 MW	2	Him9
19 October at 02:47	1,384 MW	10	Him9
19 October at 02:37	1,288 MW	9	Him9
19 October at 02:27	1,367 MW	9	Him9
19 October at 02:17	309 MW	2	Him9
19 October at 02:07	380 MW	4	Him9
19 October at 01:52	359 MW	14	Terra
18 October at 19:30	35 MW	20	N
18 October at 18:54	61 MW	19	N21
18 October at 18:09	46 MW	19	N20
18 October at 17:50	42 MW	13	N
18 October at 08:18	5,610 MW	68	N
18 October at 07:40	4,254 MW	103	N21
18 October at 06:55	310 MW	12	N20
18 October at 06:38	3,013 MW	71	N
18 October at 01:12	375 MW	8	Terra
17 October at 20:38	57 MW	5	Aqua
17 October at 19:11	139 MW	49	N21
17 October at 18:28	337 MW	52	N20
17 October at 18:07	558 MW	72	N
17 October at 14:19	444 MW	28	Terra
17 October at 07:59	12,315 MW	86	N21
17 October at 07:16	1,316 MW	63	N20
17 October at 06:55	816 MW	48	N
17 October at 06:19	2,068 MW	96	N21
17 October at 02:11	2,186 MW	15	Terra
16 October at 19:32	388 MW	46	N21
16 October at 18:48	354 MW	72	N20
16 October at 18:28	442 MW	105	N
16 October at 17:50	1,443 MW	133	N21
16 October at 13:40	8,649 MW	24	Terra
16 October at 09:09	114 MW	3	Aqua
16 October at 07:33	1,923 MW	78	N20
16 October at 07:14	6,147 MW	107	N
16 October at 06:38	1,009 MW	27	N21
16 October at 01:31	109 MW	4	Terra
15 October at 19:05	29 MW	16	N20
15 October at 18:45	33 MW	24	N
15 October at 18:09	154 MW	27	N21
15 October at 07:33	121 MW	9	N
15 October at 06:55	45 MW	6	N21
15 October at 06:12	861 MW	39	N20
14 October at 20:24	353 MW	3	Aqua
14 October at 19:26	273 MW	15	N20
14 October at 19:07	91 MW	16	N
14 October at 18:28	179 MW	16	N21
14 October at 17:44	28 MW	13	N20
14 October at 14:00	835 MW	9	Terra
14 October at 07:53	48 MW	7	N
13 October at 18:48	19 MW	3	N21
13 October at 18:05	7 MW	3	N20
13 October at 08:54	296 MW	2	Aqua
12 October at 19:05	6 MW	2	N21
12 October at 07:55	585 MW	27	N21
12 October at 07:10	229 MW	24	N20
12 October at 06:51	276 MW	34	N
12 October at 06:12	664 MW	40	N21
12 October at 02:11	118 MW	3	Terra
11 October at 19:26	9 MW	5	N21
11 October at 18:39	5 MW	2	N20
11 October at 17:44	16 MW	8	N21
11 October at 07:27	19 MW	1	N20
11 October at 07:08	277 MW	15	N
11 October at 06:32	368 MW	22	N21
10 October at 19:00	13 MW	6	N20
10 October at 18:39	20 MW	10	N
10 October at 18:03	40 MW	6	N21

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