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🇨🇱 Chile: wildfires in August 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.

Chile, August 2026: 7 detection events archived over the covered period using kanari thresholds. Updated 6 October at 14:56.

Busiest day: 8 August, with 1 ignition detected.

7
archived events
0
still active
0
with verified witnesses
0
with aircraft observed
924
peak power (MW)
"In August 2026, kanari archived 7 detection events in Chile, with 0 still active at the last update. This is not a count of distinct confirmed physical wildfires. Peak observed fire radiative power: 924 MW."
Source: kanari.io, NASA FIRMS, GOES and Meteosat MTG satellites plus AI-verified witness reports. Freely citable (CC BY 4.0).

Few fires this month: informative page, handle the figures with care.

Fire ignitions per day

082026-08-08: 1152026-08-15: 1182026-08-18: 1192026-08-19: 1202026-08-20: 1222026-08-22: 1232026-08-23: 1

Most powerful fires of the month

PlaceFirst detection (UTC)DetectionsMW
Calama23 Aug, 11:291924
Putre18 Aug, 15:391191
Colchane15 Aug, 12:491142
Mulchén22 Aug, 15:1814120
Colchane8 Aug, 17:061182
Pinto19 Aug, 13:181479
Dichato20 Aug, 17:48838

Cite these figures

kanari (2026). Archived detection events, Chile, August 2026: 7 records. https://kanari.io — accessed 2026-10-06.

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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