🇳🇿 New Zealand: 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.
New Zealand, October 2026: 3 detection events archived over the covered period using kanari thresholds. Updated 14 November at 21:44.
Busiest day: 5 October, with 1 ignition detected. -25% compared with September 2026.
"In October 2026, kanari archived 3 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: 1540 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Taihape | 26 Oct, 01:38 | 22 | 1540 |
| Queenstown | 6 Oct, 06:49 | 1 | 254 |
| Alexandra | 5 Oct, 03:19 | 21 | 225 |
Cite these figures
kanari (2026). Archived detection events, New Zealand, October 2026: 3 records. https://kanari.io — accessed 2026-11-14.
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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