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🇲🇦 Morocco: 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.

Morocco, October 2026: 43 detection events archived over the covered period using kanari thresholds. Updated 15 November at 18:56.

Busiest day: 28 October, with 34 ignitions detected. +258% compared with September 2026.

43
archived events
0
still active
0
with verified witnesses
0
with aircraft observed
57
peak power (MW)
"In October 2026, kanari archived 43 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: 57 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

022026-10-02: 2102026-10-10: 1112026-10-11: 2142026-10-14: 2242026-10-24: 1282026-10-28: 34292026-10-29: 1

Most powerful fires of the month

PlaceFirst detection (UTC)DetectionsMW
Ain El Aouda14 Oct, 12:281257
Chefchaouen28 Oct, 15:171438
Gueznaia29 Oct, 17:302026
Za Bougrine24 Oct, 14:47923
Aguelmous28 Oct, 09:20300
Al Fqih Ben Çalah28 Oct, 09:20390
Azrou28 Oct, 09:20290
Bab Taza28 Oct, 09:201080
Bir Jdid2 Oct, 11:10290
Bir Jdid10 Oct, 10:1090

Cite these figures

kanari (2026). Archived detection events, Morocco, October 2026: 43 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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