🇲🇦 Morocco: 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.
Morocco, August 2026: 15 detection events archived over the covered period using kanari thresholds. Updated 5 October at 03:39.
Busiest day: 16 August, with 3 ignitions detected.
"In August 2026, kanari archived 15 detection events in Morocco, with 0 still active at the last update. This is not a count of distinct confirmed physical wildfires. Peak observed fire radiative power: 958 MW."
Fire ignitions per day
Most powerful fires of the month
| Place | First detection (UTC) | Detections | MW |
|---|---|---|---|
| Essaouira | 18 Aug, 06:29 | 1 | 958 |
| Smimou | 18 Aug, 06:29 | 1 | 572 |
| Amizmiz | 17 Aug, 09:19 | 2 | 340 |
| Taghazout | 3 Aug, 16:57 | 45 | 165 |
| Assads | 20 Aug, 14:54 | 1 | 130 |
| Foum Zguid | 16 Aug, 18:39 | 7 | 122 |
| Foum Zguid | 16 Aug, 18:39 | 1 | 114 |
| Chefchaouen | 4 Aug, 14:55 | 4 | 113 |
| Foum Zguid | 16 Aug, 18:54 | 2 | 102 |
| Touarga | 15 Aug, 13:50 | 8 | 43 |
Cite these figures
kanari (2026). Archived detection events, Morocco, August 2026: 15 records. https://kanari.io — accessed 2026-10-05.
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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