🇩🇪 Germany: 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.
Germany, September 2026: 59 detection events archived over the covered period using kanari thresholds. Updated 18 October at 06:59.
Busiest day: 17 September, with 17 ignitions detected. +157% compared with August 2026.
"In September 2026, kanari archived 59 detection events in Germany, with 0 still active at the last update. This is not a count of distinct confirmed physical wildfires. Peak observed fire radiative power: 28 MW."
Fire ignitions per day
Most powerful fires of the month
| Place | First detection (UTC) | Detections | MW |
|---|---|---|---|
| Gutach | 27 Sept, 21:10 | 19 | 28 |
| Frankenthal | 29 Sept, 07:18 | 12 | 27 |
| Gondershausen | 11 Sept, 12:49 | 2 | 12 |
| Meiderich | 5 Sept, 00:10 | 16 | 10 |
| Rheinhausen | 5 Sept, 00:39 | 47 | 10 |
| Eisenhüttenstadt | 25 Sept, 23:50 | 10 | 8 |
| Salzgitter | 5 Sept, 00:39 | 28 | 7 |
| Dillingen | 15 Sept, 00:54 | 9 | 7 |
| Meiderich | 15 Sept, 00:54 | 21 | 6 |
| Rheinhausen | 4 Sept, 01:43 | 2 | 5 |
Cite these figures
kanari (2026). Archived detection events, Germany, September 2026: 59 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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