🇨🇴 Colombia: wildfires in September 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.
Colombia, September 2026: 54 detection events archived over the covered period using kanari thresholds. Updated 18 October at 06:51.
Busiest day: 9 September, with 7 ignitions detected. -49% compared with August 2026.
"In September 2026, kanari archived 54 detection events in Colombia, with 0 still active at the last update. This is not a count of distinct confirmed physical wildfires. Peak observed fire radiative power: 509 MW."
Fire ignitions per day
Most powerful fires of the month
| Place | First detection (UTC) | Detections | MW |
|---|---|---|---|
| Tame | 17 Sept, 12:49 | 2 | 509 |
| Caldono | 17 Sept, 17:54 | 5 | 400 |
| El Paso | 9 Sept, 18:44 | 13 | 323 |
| La Primavera | 21 Sept, 17:49 | 7 | 304 |
| San Jacinto | 8 Sept, 17:47 | 6 | 259 |
| El Cerrito | 12 Sept, 15:54 | 9 | 232 |
| Ayapel | 9 Sept, 13:09 | 2 | 231 |
| Villa Rica | 1 Sept, 23:14 | 3 | 195 |
| Candelaria | 9 Sept, 19:19 | 7 | 189 |
| Puerto Gaitán | 30 Sept, 17:44 | 7 | 175 |
Cite these figures
kanari (2026). Archived detection events, Colombia, September 2026: 54 records. https://kanari.io — accessed 2026-10-18.
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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