🇺🇸 United States: 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 States, October 2026: 7 detection events archived over the covered period using kanari thresholds. Updated 1 October at 11:49.

Busiest day: 1 October, with 7 ignitions detected.

"In October 2026, kanari archived 7 detection events in United States, with 7 still active at the last update. This is not a count of distinct confirmed physical wildfires. Peak observed fire radiative power: 6 MW."

Few fires this month: informative page, handle the figures with care.