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🇷🇺 Russia: 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.

Russia, September 2026: 660 detection events archived over the covered period using kanari thresholds. Updated 18 October at 06:51.

Busiest day: 2 September, with 81 ignitions detected. -63% compared with August 2026.

660
archived events
0
still active
0
with verified witnesses
0
with aircraft observed
2464
peak power (MW)
"In September 2026, kanari archived 660 detection events in Russia, with 0 still active at the last update. This is not a count of distinct confirmed physical wildfires. Peak observed fire radiative power: 2464 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

012026-09-01: 37022026-09-02: 81032026-09-03: 35042026-09-04: 42052026-09-05: 26062026-09-06: 12072026-09-07: 28082026-09-08: 39092026-09-09: 31102026-09-10: 34112026-09-11: 46122026-09-12: 7132026-09-13: 44142026-09-14: 4152026-09-15: 5162026-09-16: 2172026-09-17: 77182026-09-18: 28192026-09-19: 13202026-09-20: 14212026-09-21: 3222026-09-22: 10232026-09-23: 12242026-09-24: 5252026-09-25: 7262026-09-26: 4272026-09-27: 1282026-09-28: 1292026-09-29: 9302026-09-30: 3

Most powerful fires of the month

PlaceFirst detection (UTC)DetectionsMW
Aykhal1 Sept, 15:2022464
Chertkovo2 Sept, 00:1081407
Aykhal1 Sept, 15:001956
Dmitriyevskoye5 Sept, 12:2653883
Kizil’skoye7 Sept, 07:2611768
Primorsk24 Sept, 06:38100725
Mednogorsk7 Sept, 08:562724
Adamovka7 Sept, 07:568700
Fershampenuaz28 Sept, 09:261678
Safakulevo8 Sept, 11:111617

Cite these figures

kanari (2026). Archived detection events, Russia, September 2026: 660 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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