🇩🇪 Germany: 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.
Germany, October 2026: 173 detection events archived over the covered period using kanari thresholds. Updated 15 November at 09:35.
Busiest day: 30 October, with 38 ignitions detected. +193% compared with September 2026.
"In October 2026, kanari archived 173 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: 16 MW."
Fire ignitions per day
Most powerful fires of the month
| Place | First detection (UTC) | Detections | MW |
|---|---|---|---|
| Westhofen | 12 Oct, 15:58 | 2 | 16 |
| Rheinhausen | 18 Oct, 00:35 | 9 | 11 |
| Dillingen | 9 Oct, 00:48 | 12 | 7 |
| Meiderich | 10 Oct, 01:26 | 9 | 4 |
| Meiderich | 11 Oct, 01:49 | 9 | 4 |
| Salzgitter | 9 Oct, 00:48 | 10 | 3 |
| Dillingen | 5 Oct, 00:22 | 2 | 3 |
| Völklingen | 26 Oct, 00:30 | 2 | 3 |
| Meiderich | 2 Oct, 00:35 | 15 | 3 |
| Rheinhausen | 2 Oct, 00:35 | 3 | 3 |
Cite these figures
kanari (2026). Archived detection events, Germany, October 2026: 173 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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