🇦🇺 Australia: wildfires in October 2026

Unit: archived detection events, grouped by first-detection day and a roughly 11 km cell. One physical fire can span multiple records; hotspots can also be agricultural, industrial or urban. These counts are not a census of confirmed wildfires. The archive starts on August 3, 2026; the current month is incomplete.

Australia, October 2026: 223 detection events archived over the covered period using kanari thresholds. Updated 15 November at 20:30.

Busiest day: 29 October, with 27 ignitions detected. -26% compared with September 2026.

"In October 2026, kanari archived 223 detection events in Australia, with 0 still active at the last update. This is not a count of distinct confirmed physical wildfires. Peak observed fire radiative power: 1234 MW."