🇬🇧 United Kingdom: 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.
United Kingdom, October 2026: 53 detection events archived over the covered period using kanari thresholds. Updated 14 November at 15:10.
Busiest day: 4 October, with 9 ignitions detected. -10% compared with September 2026.
"In October 2026, kanari archived 53 detection events in United Kingdom, with 0 still active at the last update. This is not a count of distinct confirmed physical wildfires. Peak observed fire radiative power: 2 MW."
Fire ignitions per day
Most powerful fires of the month
| Place | First detection (UTC) | Detections | MW |
|---|---|---|---|
| Renfrew | 10 Oct, 02:09 | 9 | 2 |
| Hythe | 2 Oct, 02:15 | 2 | 1 |
| Aughnacloy | 22 Oct, 10:20 | 48 | 0 |
| Bamburgh | 11 Oct, 11:30 | 12 | 0 |
| Birchington-on-Sea | 4 Oct, 10:30 | 9 | 0 |
| Bishopstrow | 26 Oct, 12:50 | 4 | 0 |
| Bleadon | 15 Oct, 11:30 | 2 | 0 |
| Brightlingsea | 31 Oct, 12:00 | 13 | 0 |
| Burniston | 30 Oct, 10:00 | 25 | 0 |
| Callander | 19 Oct, 09:50 | 12 | 0 |
Cite these figures
kanari (2026). Archived detection events, United Kingdom, October 2026: 53 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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