🇲🇳 Mongolia: 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.
Mongolia, August 2026: 18 detection events archived over the covered period using kanari thresholds. Updated 6 October at 10:10.
Busiest day: 9 August, with 5 ignitions detected.
"In August 2026, kanari archived 18 detection events in Mongolia, with 0 still active at the last update. This is not a count of distinct confirmed physical wildfires. Peak observed fire radiative power: 1371 MW."
Fire ignitions per day
Most powerful fires of the month
| Place | First detection (UTC) | Detections | MW |
|---|---|---|---|
| Bayan-Ovoo | 9 Aug, 09:21 | 24 | 1371 |
| Bayan-Ovoo | 9 Aug, 09:21 | 17 | 1159 |
| Bayan-Ovoo | 9 Aug, 09:21 | 32 | 1135 |
| Bayan-Ovoo | 9 Aug, 09:21 | 9 | 1031 |
| Bayan-Ovoo | 9 Aug, 09:21 | 3 | 313 |
| Bayan-Ovoo | 5 Aug, 12:11 | 1 | 138 |
| Noyon Suma | 31 Aug, 03:40 | 1 | 137 |
| Darvi | 5 Aug, 10:51 | 1 | 133 |
| Noyon Suma | 31 Aug, 03:40 | 4 | 133 |
| Hatansuudal | 8 Aug, 10:01 | 1 | 122 |
Cite these figures
kanari (2026). Archived detection events, Mongolia, August 2026: 18 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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