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🇷🇺 Russia: 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.

Russia, October 2026: 285 detection events archived over the covered period using kanari thresholds. Updated 15 November at 06:09.

Busiest day: 4 October, with 25 ignitions detected. -57% compared with September 2026.

285
archived events
0
still active
0
with verified witnesses
0
with aircraft observed
3950
peak power (MW)
"In October 2026, kanari archived 285 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: 3950 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

012026-10-01: 5022026-10-02: 5032026-10-03: 12042026-10-04: 25052026-10-05: 14062026-10-06: 7072026-10-07: 10082026-10-08: 13092026-10-09: 7102026-10-10: 5112026-10-11: 20122026-10-12: 2132026-10-13: 10142026-10-14: 4152026-10-15: 5162026-10-16: 4172026-10-17: 1182026-10-18: 3192026-10-19: 1202026-10-20: 13212026-10-21: 2222026-10-22: 6232026-10-23: 13242026-10-24: 15252026-10-25: 20262026-10-26: 19272026-10-27: 10282026-10-28: 8292026-10-29: 17302026-10-30: 9

Most powerful fires of the month

PlaceFirst detection (UTC)DetectionsMW
Belinskiy13 Oct, 07:48843950
Spiridonovka8 Oct, 09:2611027
Remontnoye26 Oct, 08:2062724
Energetik23 Oct, 10:111512
Arti15 Oct, 08:411459
Akhunovo17 Oct, 09:261413
Remontnoye25 Oct, 22:0382411
Kumylzhenskaya27 Oct, 06:5854402
Novyy Rogachik5 Oct, 13:3839381
Smidovich15 Oct, 06:0025378

Cite these figures

kanari (2026). Archived detection events, Russia, October 2026: 285 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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