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🇹🇳 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.

10
archived events
0
still active
0
with verified witnesses
0
with aircraft observed
251
peak power (MW)
"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."
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: 1022026-10-02: 2032026-10-03: 1052026-10-05: 1282026-10-28: 5

Most powerful fires of the month

PlaceFirst detection (UTC)DetectionsMW
Mateur2 Oct, 12:1028251
Tozeur1 Oct, 20:102157
Menzel Temime5 Oct, 12:081147
Douar Tindja3 Oct, 13:48825
Mateur2 Oct, 23:58814
As Sars28 Oct, 09:20120
Bou Chemma28 Oct, 09:20100
El Ksour28 Oct, 09:20440
Le Krib28 Oct, 09:20120
Zarzis28 Oct, 09:20100

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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