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🇨🇴 Colombia: 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.

Colombia, October 2026: 31 detection events archived over the covered period using kanari thresholds. Updated 15 November at 05:06.

Busiest day: 15 October, with 5 ignitions detected. -43% compared with September 2026.

31
archived events
0
still active
0
with verified witnesses
0
with aircraft observed
382
peak power (MW)
"In October 2026, kanari archived 31 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: 382 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

012026-10-01: 1032026-10-03: 1042026-10-04: 1052026-10-05: 3062026-10-06: 1072026-10-07: 1112026-10-11: 1122026-10-12: 2132026-10-13: 1142026-10-14: 3152026-10-15: 5162026-10-16: 1172026-10-17: 1192026-10-19: 1242026-10-24: 2252026-10-25: 1272026-10-27: 3292026-10-29: 2

Most powerful fires of the month

PlaceFirst detection (UTC)DetectionsMW
La Macarena27 Oct, 19:1414382
Curillo14 Oct, 18:3517240
Mapiripán29 Oct, 18:195216
La Macarena6 Oct, 19:292216
Aguachica15 Oct, 17:446195
Caracolí7 Oct, 17:393182
Chivor5 Oct, 12:591172
Cunday15 Oct, 17:347153
Morales1 Oct, 18:244148
Durania17 Oct, 19:545139

Cite these figures

kanari (2026). Archived detection events, Colombia, October 2026: 31 records. https://kanari.io — accessed 2026-11-15.

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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