Coconino fire, 26 October 2026 Coconino
Satellites first detected fire on 26 October 2026 in Coconino, United States. It has been active for 4 days, with 157 heat detections and an area with fire of about 1,190 hectares rebuilt from them, spread across a single county.
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NIFC has not yet published the perimeter of this fire. For now the area is the one rebuilt from heat detections (about 14 hectares per pixel). When the perimeter arrives, this page picks it up on its own and keeps the same address.
Is it still active?
Satellites detected fire on 29 Oct 2026, 09:43 UTC. Everything suggests it is still burning. Satellites pass a few times a day and cloud or smoke can hide the fire: a lack of detections is not an official extinction. Each country’s emergency service declares a fire contained or out.
- Area with fire
- ≈ 1,190ha
- rebuilt from hotspots, no official perimeter yet
- Duration
- 4days
- 26 Oct 2026 – 29 Oct 2026
- Counties hit
- 1
- counties
- Started on
- 26 Oct
- 2026
- Heat detections
- 157
- in a single hotspot: 68 MW
- Danger at start
- 1
- Very low · FWI index
- Average daily power
- 444MW
- detected power per day, on average
Where it burned
How it evolved, day by day
Fire radiative power detected each day, in megawatts, and number of hotspots. The magenta bar marks the peak day.
The weather it burned in
It had gone one day without rain (1 mm or more) when it started.
What happened to each county
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Coconino where it started1,190 ha reached on 26 Oct0.0 %
Area with fire inside each county, rebuilt from heat detections (about 14 hectares per VIIRS pixel). An estimate until NIFC publishes the official perimeter. The distance runs from the point marking the centre of each area to the nearest fire: staying a kilometre away does not mean it reached the houses.
The weather day by day
ECMWF ERA5 reanalysis at the fire location, the standard reference for past weather, and the Canadian Fire Weather Index (the same system Copernicus uses), computed by WorldFires from that data. Days after the fire run until the first rain.
Open-Meteo.com (CC BY 4.0) · forecast models, provisional until the ERA5 reanalysis arrives
| Day | High | Min. humidity | Peak gust | Rain | Danger (FWI) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 26 Oct | 15.4 °C | 30 % | 34 km/h | 0.0 mm | Very low 1 |
| 27 Oct | 14.3 °C | 37 % | 39 km/h | 0.0 mm | Very low 3 |
| 28 Oct | 14.9 °C | 36 % | 40 km/h | 0.0 mm | Very low 4 |
| 29 Oct | 15.7 °C | 38 % | 44 km/h | 0.0 mm | Very low 5 |
Before and after, from space
Drag the line to compare the same ground before the fire and after it.
If the day is cloudy, change the date: each satellite passes once a day. In false colour the burnt ground looks brown or red.
The smoke
CAMS · CopernicusOn 25 October 2026 the air beside the fire reached 4 µg/m³ of PM2.5, but no daily average passed the WHO guideline (15).
Particles from the Copernicus CAMS model at the centre of the perimeter; these are not measurements in each town. The pale bar is the worst hour, the solid one the daily average.
Open-Meteo.com (CC BY 4.0) · Copernicus Atmosphere Monitoring Service (CAMS)
Detections table · 157Every satellite heat detection, one by one, with time, satellite, power and coordinates.
| Date and time | Satellite | FRP (MW) | Lat | Lon |
|---|
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Frequently asked questions
- How long did the Coconino fire last?
- According to the heat detections seen by satellite, it burned from 26 October 2026 to 29 October 2026 (4 days between the first and the last detection). There is no perimeter yet to date it.
- How much area did it burn?
- There is no official perimeter yet: NIFC has not published it. Heat detections rebuild about 1,190 hectares with fire (11.9 km²).
- Which counties burned?
- The fire only entered Coconino (1,190 ha, 0.0 %).
- Is the Coconino fire still active?
- Yes: satellites detected fire on 29 Oct 2026, 09:43 UTC. Check the emergency service for the official status.
- What was the weather like?
- During the fire the temperature reached 15.4 °C, humidity dropped to 30 % and gusts hit 40 km/h. The fire danger index (FWI) reached 4, class Very low.
- Where does this data come from?
- From the official burnt perimeter of United States agencies (MTBS / NIFC, public domain), NASA FIRMS VIIRS hotspots and the administrative boundaries of United States. It is not an official report.
Where to verify it
A satellite detection is not an official report. Final figures and the fire’s status are published by each country’s emergency service.
Emergency number: 911 · Emergency number and official warnings ›
- NIFC · National Interagency Fire Center ↗
- InciWeb · Incident Information System ↗
- MTBS · Monitoring Trends in Burn Severity ↗
Satellite cross-check
History of this page · 3 Changes in area, dates, name, official record or merged pages, compared every night since 27 October 2026.
- Area: ≈ 784 → ≈ 1,120 ha.
- Area: ≈ 490 → ≈ 784 ha.
- Page published (≈ 490 ha).
Does something look wrong on this page?
This page is built from satellite data and official records, and it sometimes gets things wrong: the wrong dates, the wrong town, two fires merged into one, or something that was not a wildfire at all. If you know this fire first-hand (you live nearby, saw it, fought it or reported on it), tell us what really happened and we will check it.
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How we know this
- No perimeter yet: the area (≈ 1,190 ha) is estimated by counting VIIRS pixels with fire, about 14 ha each.
- Dates of the first and last VIIRS detection of the cluster. 157 Suomi-NPP VIIRS detections on those dates.
- Weather: ECMWF IFS model, provisional until the ERA5 reanalysis arrives.
Where this data comes from
The perimeter is official and in the public domain. For past years it comes from MTBS (Monitoring Trends in Burn Severity), run by the U.S. Geological Survey and the USDA Forest Service, which map it on Landsat and Sentinel-2 imagery. For the current and last year it comes from WFIGS at the National Interagency Fire Center (NIFC): incident perimeters mapped by fire crews, aircraft and imagery. Heat detections come from the VIIRS sensors aboard Suomi-NPP and NOAA-20, distributed by NASA FIRMS at 375 m resolution. County boundaries come from geoBoundaries ADM2 (Public Domain). The area per county is computed by WorldFires by crossing the perimeter with those boundaries, so it may differ slightly from official figures.