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🇺🇸 United States: wildfires in September 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 States, September 2026: 508 detection events archived over the covered period using kanari thresholds. Updated 18 October at 09:38.

Busiest day: 9 September, with 42 ignitions detected. -12% compared with August 2026.

508
archived events
0
still active
0
with verified witnesses
7
with aircraft observed
3506
peak power (MW)
"In September 2026, kanari archived 508 detection events in United States, with 0 still active at the last update. This is not a count of distinct confirmed physical wildfires. Peak observed fire radiative power: 3506 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

012026-09-01: 20022026-09-02: 12032026-09-03: 14042026-09-04: 23052026-09-05: 6062026-09-06: 3072026-09-07: 14082026-09-08: 13092026-09-09: 42102026-09-10: 15112026-09-11: 13122026-09-12: 17132026-09-13: 10142026-09-14: 7152026-09-15: 33162026-09-16: 36172026-09-17: 23182026-09-18: 15192026-09-19: 5202026-09-20: 10212026-09-21: 12222026-09-22: 36232026-09-23: 24242026-09-24: 11252026-09-25: 11262026-09-26: 10272026-09-27: 12282026-09-28: 31292026-09-29: 13302026-09-30: 17

Most powerful fires of the month

PlaceFirst detection (UTC)DetectionsMW
Verdi16 Sept, 17:21753506
Hardin9 Sept, 15:41251418
Porcupine4 Sept, 19:11551243
Yosemite Valley15 Sept, 20:46251142
Henrietta14 Sept, 21:321261056
Midpines1 Sept, 20:4914931
Sonora15 Sept, 19:0253916
Volcano8 Sept, 01:3368848
Pascagoula26 Sept, 06:425826
Averill Park10 Sept, 12:491815

Cite these figures

kanari (2026). Archived detection events, United States, September 2026: 508 records. https://kanari.io — accessed 2026-10-18.

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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