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🇦🇺 Australia: wildfires in November 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, November 2026: 16 detection events archived over the covered period using kanari thresholds. Updated 1 November at 08:12.

Busiest day: 1 November, with 16 ignitions detected.

16
archived events
16
still active
0
with verified witnesses
0
with aircraft observed
1148
peak power (MW)
"In November 2026, kanari archived 16 detection events in Australia, with 16 still active at the last update. This is not a count of distinct confirmed physical wildfires. Peak observed fire radiative power: 1148 MW."
Source: kanari.io, NASA FIRMS, GOES and Meteosat MTG satellites plus AI-verified witness reports. Freely citable (CC BY 4.0).

Fire ignitions per day

012026-11-01: 16

Most powerful fires of the month

PlaceFirst detection (UTC)DetectionsMW
Stuart1 Nov, 01:17111148
Moranbah1 Nov, 04:1713308
Bouldercombe1 Nov, 01:1716164
Alton Downs1 Nov, 04:374157
Home Hill1 Nov, 03:3714141
Calliope1 Nov, 02:3727117
Mundubbera1 Nov, 04:085101
Alton Downs1 Nov, 02:55998
Red Hill1 Nov, 02:571289
Nebo1 Nov, 02:27880

Cite these figures

kanari (2026). Archived detection events, Australia, November 2026: 16 records. https://kanari.io — accessed 2026-11-01.

Methodology: only significant fires are archived (corroborated by witnesses, or above detection and power thresholds); totals are not comparable to exhaustive official tallies. Full methodology and licence.

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