🇹🇳 Tunisia: 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.
Tunisia, October 2026: 10 detection events archived over the covered period using kanari thresholds. Updated 15 November at 12:44.
Busiest day: 28 October, with 5 ignitions detected. +150% compared with September 2026.
"In October 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: 251 MW."
Fire ignitions per day
Most powerful fires of the month
| Place | First detection (UTC) | Detections | MW |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mateur | 2 Oct, 12:10 | 28 | 251 |
| Tozeur | 1 Oct, 20:10 | 2 | 157 |
| Menzel Temime | 5 Oct, 12:08 | 11 | 47 |
| Douar Tindja | 3 Oct, 13:48 | 8 | 25 |
| Mateur | 2 Oct, 23:58 | 8 | 14 |
| As Sars | 28 Oct, 09:20 | 12 | 0 |
| Bou Chemma | 28 Oct, 09:20 | 10 | 0 |
| El Ksour | 28 Oct, 09:20 | 44 | 0 |
| Le Krib | 28 Oct, 09:20 | 12 | 0 |
| Zarzis | 28 Oct, 09:20 | 10 | 0 |
Cite these figures
kanari (2026). Archived detection events, Tunisia, October 2026: 10 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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