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🇹🇳 Tunisia: wildfires in August 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.

Tunisia, August 2026: 10 detection events archived over the covered period using kanari thresholds. Updated 5 October at 12:47.

Busiest day: 8 August, with 2 ignitions detected.

10
archived events
0
still active
0
with verified witnesses
0
with aircraft observed
178
peak power (MW)
"In August 2026, kanari archived 10 detection events in Tunisia, with 0 still active at the last update. This is not a count of distinct confirmed physical wildfires. Peak observed fire radiative power: 178 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

052026-08-05: 1062026-08-06: 1072026-08-07: 1082026-08-08: 2122026-08-12: 1132026-08-13: 1172026-08-17: 1252026-08-25: 1262026-08-26: 1

Most powerful fires of the month

PlaceFirst detection (UTC)DetectionsMW
Djebel Abiod26 Aug, 20:25162178
Touiref5 Aug, 12:402137
Nefta8 Aug, 17:551106
Wadi Maliz12 Aug, 12:5547103
Mateur8 Aug, 08:481577
Mateur25 Aug, 08:381068
Sejenane13 Aug, 12:481153
Mateur17 Aug, 18:20848
Sidi Bou Rouis6 Aug, 14:18841
El Alia7 Aug, 10:18840

Cite these figures

kanari (2026). Archived detection events, Tunisia, August 2026: 10 records. https://kanari.io — accessed 2026-10-05.

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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