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🇸🇪 Sweden: 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.

Sweden, October 2026: 78 detection events archived over the covered period using kanari thresholds. Updated 14 November at 02:04.

Busiest day: 20 October, with 56 ignitions detected. +3800% compared with September 2026.

78
archived events
0
still active
0
with verified witnesses
0
with aircraft observed
0
peak power (MW)
"In October 2026, kanari archived 78 detection events in Sweden, with 0 still active at the last update. This is not a count of distinct confirmed physical wildfires. Peak observed fire radiative power: 0 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

042026-10-04: 1092026-10-09: 1102026-10-10: 1112026-10-11: 1192026-10-19: 15202026-10-20: 56232026-10-23: 2302026-10-30: 1

Most powerful fires of the month

PlaceFirst detection (UTC)DetectionsMW
Abborrberget20 Oct, 09:1090
Alfta20 Oct, 09:20210
Alsike19 Oct, 10:10120
Älvdalen20 Oct, 09:00160
Älvdalen20 Oct, 09:40130
Älvdalen20 Oct, 10:20130
Arboga19 Oct, 10:00130
Arboga20 Oct, 10:40120
Arbrå20 Oct, 09:4080
Åsbro20 Oct, 09:30130

Cite these figures

kanari (2026). Archived detection events, Sweden, October 2026: 78 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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