🇳🇿 New Zealand: 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.
New Zealand, September 2026: 4 detection events archived over the covered period using kanari thresholds. Updated 18 October at 06:54.
Busiest day: 29 September, with 2 ignitions detected. +100% compared with August 2026.
"In September 2026, kanari archived 4 detection events in New Zealand, with 0 still active at the last update. This is not a count of distinct confirmed physical wildfires. Peak observed fire radiative power: 260 MW."
Few fires this month: informative page, handle the figures with care.
Fire ignitions per day
Most powerful fires of the month
| Place | First detection (UTC) | Detections | MW |
|---|---|---|---|
| Oamaru | 16 Sept, 23:49 | 7 | 260 |
| Darfield | 29 Sept, 01:09 | 3 | 147 |
| Hanmer Springs | 15 Sept, 03:19 | 1 | 135 |
| Arthurs Point | 29 Sept, 04:19 | 9 | 133 |
Cite these figures
kanari (2026). Archived detection events, New Zealand, September 2026: 4 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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