Burned area
satellite only21,589ha
Perimeter published by GWIS (Copernicus).
- Source
- GWIS (Copernicus)
- Date
- 7 Nov 2026 – 15 Nov 2026
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AU · Australia · –
Cook fire, November 2026 Cook
Burning · last detection 15 Nov 2026, 04:33 UTC
The fire started on 7 November 2026 in Cook, Australia, and satellites saw it burning for 9 days. Copernicus’s global GWIS system rebuilt a burnt perimeter of 21,589 hectares from heat detections, spread across a single municipality.
Number 12 in Australia in 2026, of 68.
GWIS near-real-time perimeter, from the layer that changed in October 2025: this fire is not compared with fires from earlier years, because since then the GWIS layer gives more and larger perimeters.
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Duration by satellite
satellite only9days
From 7 Nov 2026 to today: still being detected.
- Source
- GWIS (Copernicus) · NASA FIRMS · VIIRS
- Date
- last detection: 15 Nov 2026, 04:33 UTC
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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.
Start
satellite only7 Nov 2026
First day with fire seen by the satellites or the perimeter.
- Source
- GWIS (Copernicus) · NASA FIRMS · VIIRS
- Date
- 7 Nov 2026
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No official record is matched to this page, so the alert time and the cause are not known here.
Hotspots
satellite only479
VIIRS detections at 375 m. Most intense hotspot: 69 MW.
- Source
- NASA FIRMS · VIIRS (NOAA-20)
- Date
- 7 Nov 2026 – 15 Nov 2026
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There is no official record to compare with. Each hotspot is a pixel detected in one satellite pass, not a separate fire.
The worst day
satellite only1,967MW
Total radiative power on 13 November 2026; hotspots that day: 93.
- Source
- NASA FIRMS · VIIRS (FRP)
- Date
- 13 Nov 2026
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Fire radiative power (FRP) measures the energy the fire gives off when the satellite passes. Added up by day, it compares intensity, not area.
Danger at the start
model43.0FWI · very high
Fire Weather Index (Canadian system) computed by WorldFires for the day the fire started. Consecutive days without rain before: 34.
- Source
- WorldFires calculation (Canadian FWI system)
- Date
- 7 Nov 2026, local noon
- Model
- ECMWF IFS 0,25° · Open-Meteo.com · provisional
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This is an index computed from weather model data, not a measurement of the fire nor an official warning. Danger warnings are issued by each country’s authority. Emergency number and official warnings
Weather during the fire
model34.3°C · 44% RH
High of 34.3 °C and minimum humidity of 44% on 8 November 2026; gusts of 61 km/h on 12 November 2026.
- Source
- weather model at the fire’s grid cell
- Date
- 7 Nov 2026 – 15 Nov 2026
- Model
- ECMWF IFS 0,25° · Open-Meteo.com · provisional
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These are model values for a cell of about 25 km, not from a weather station: they may differ from what was measured on the ground.
This page’s change log has been kept since 14 November 2026: every night what it publishes is compared and the difference is logged. Anything earlier is reconstructed from each source’s date and marked as reconstructed.
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· reconstructed weatherWeather and FWI computed from the forecast (provisional until ERA5 arrives)
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logPage published (5,437 ha).
What was saved on 14 November 2026
Every night a snapshot of what the page shows is saved. If anything changes, it appears in the list as a log entry.
- Area
- 5,437 ha
- Dates
- 8 Nov 2026 – ongoing
- Name
- Cook
- Official record
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Versioned permanent link
https://worldfires.org/en/fire/cook-2026-11-5?v=2026-11-14A version keeps the area, dates, name and official record; the area as it was logged (changes under 2% are not logged). The map, hotspots and weather always show today’s data.
Citation
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CSV for this fire cook-2026-11-5.csv · daily, no individual hotspots
| fecha | focos_viirs | frp_mw | tmax_c | tmin_c | hr_min_pct | viento_max_kmh | racha_max_kmh | precip_mm | fwi | clase_fwi | dentro_del_incendio |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-11-07 | 0 | 0 | 33.2 | 23.6 | 46 | 18 | 45.7 | 0 | 43 | muy_alto | 1 |
| 2026-11-08 | 9 | 75 | 34.3 | 24.5 | 44 | 15.3 | 39.6 | 0.4 | 39 | muy_alto | 1 |
| 2026-11-09 | 11 | 19 | 34.3 | 24.2 | 49 | 13.6 | 38.2 | 0.3 | 34.9 | alto | 1 |
| 2026-11-10 | 18 | 109 | 33.4 | 24.8 | 50 | 20.9 | 49.3 | 0.5 | 44.8 | muy_alto | 1 |
| 2026-11-11 | 56 | 382 | 32.5 | 24.9 | 50 | 24.1 | 57.6 | 0.5 | 52.2 | extremo | 1 |
| 2026-11-12 | 27 | 293 | 32.4 | 24.4 | 54 | 26.9 | 61.2 | 1.6 | 40.8 | muy_alto | 1 |
| 2026-11-13 | 93 | 1,967 | 32.5 | 25.7 | 55 | 23.2 | 56.5 | 0.3 | 38.9 | muy_alto | 1 |
| 2026-11-14 | 131 | 566 | 33.1 | 24.8 | 49 | 17.7 | 44.3 | 0.3 | 37.1 | alto | 1 |
| 2026-11-15 | 134 | 1,373 | 34.1 | 24 | 42 | 14.7 | 37.4 | 0 | 36.3 | alto | 1 |
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Is it still active?
Satellites detected fire on 15 Nov 2026, 04:33 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.
- Burnt area
- 21,589ha
- GWIS perimeter (Copernicus)
- Duration
- 9days
- 7 Nov 2026 – 15 Nov 2026
- Municipalities hit
- 1
- local government areas
- Started on
- 7 Nov
- 2026
- Heat detections
- 479
- in a single hotspot: 69 MW
- Danger at start
- 43
- Very high · FWI index
- Average daily power
- 598MW
- detected power per day, on average
The next 72 hours
The wind is blowing from the east and pushing westwards; no sharp shifts are expected until Thu 19, 00:00.
ECMWF IFS 0.25° at the centre of the fire · computed 15 Nov 2026, 14:23 UTC
Wed 18, 11:00, local time
First useful rain: 2.1 mm in 6 h
Chance of rain up to 62 % in those hours. It can slow the fire at the surface, but that does not mean it will go out.
Checked, no warning: no wind shifts of more than 60° nights recover humidity (peaks of 93 % or more)
Hour by hour, local time
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Mean wind
Gusts
where it blows to
Relative humidity
Night (8 pm to 8 am)
Rain (mm) · chance in %
Where is it blowing? The next 48 h
geoBoundaries/Australian Bureau of Statistics (Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0))
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Places the fan reaches
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or tap the mapThis is not an official warning. It is a global model forecast with cells of about 25 km, at the centre of the fire: it cannot see valley winds or the winds the fire itself creates. The fan shows where the wind blows, not where the fire will spread. If in doubt, follow what the authorities say.
Emergencies · Australia 000 Emergency number and official warningsForecast: ECMWF IFS 0.25° (European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts), served by our own Open-Meteo instance; the chance of rain comes from the ECMWF ensemble. Variables: wind and gusts at 10 m, wind at 850 hPa, relative humidity and temperature at 2 m, rain. Open-Meteo.com (CC BY 4.0).
Fire: GWIS / Copernicus (reconstructed from VIIRS) (CC BY 4.0); hotspots from the last 24 h: VIIRS from NASA FIRMS. Boundaries: geoBoundaries/Australian Bureau of Statistics (Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)).
How it is worked out: wind shift = a change of more than 60° in 6 h or less, with at least 15 km/h before and after; no overnight recovery = peak humidity between 8 pm and 8 am stays below 55 %; useful rain = 2 mm or more in 6 h. The fan opens 18° plus however much the wind varies within ±3 h and reaches 25 km beyond the edge of the fire: one model cell, not a rate of spread. Methodology
Where it burned
HOTSPOTS BY DAY
7 Nov15 Nov
15 Nov 2026
How it evolved, day by day
7 Nov
9 Nov
11 Nov
13 Nov
15 Nov
Fire radiative power detected each day, in megawatts, and number of hotspots. The magenta bar marks the peak day.
The weather it burned in
34°high
61km/h · peak gust
42%lowest humidity
It had gone 34 days without rain (1 mm or more) when it started.
How big is it?
London boundary: geoBoundaries · Office for National Statistics (Open Government Licence v3.0).
Paris boundary: geoBoundaries · Institut national de l'information géographique et forestière (IGN-F) (Etalab Open License 2.0).
Madrid boundary: geoBoundaries · Open Data ESRI, IGN Central Registry of Cartography Area (CC BY 4.0).
Berlin boundary: geoBoundaries · Federal Agency for Cartography and Geodesy (dl-de/by-2-0).
This compares size, not location: both shapes are at the same scale, north up, centred on each other.
What happened to each town
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Cook where it started21,540 ha reached on 7 Nov0.2 %
Burnt area inside each municipality, from crossing the GWIS perimeter with administrative boundaries. 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) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 7 Nov | 33.2 °C | 46 % | 46 km/h | 0.0 mm | Very high 43 |
| 8 Nov | 34.3 °C | 44 % | 40 km/h | 0.4 mm | Very high 39 |
| 9 Nov | 34.3 °C | 49 % | 38 km/h | 0.3 mm | High 35 |
| 10 Nov | 33.4 °C | 50 % | 49 km/h | 0.5 mm | Very high 45 |
| 11 Nov | 32.5 °C | 50 % | 58 km/h | 0.5 mm | Extreme 52 |
| 12 Nov | 32.4 °C | 54 % | 61 km/h | 1.6 mm | Very high 41 |
| 13 Nov | 32.5 °C | 55 % | 56 km/h | 0.3 mm | Very high 39 |
| 14 Nov | 33.1 °C | 49 % | 44 km/h | 0.3 mm | High 37 |
| 15 Nov | 34.1 °C | 42 % | 37 km/h | 0.0 mm | High 36 |
Before and after, from space
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Before · 31 Oct 2026
After · 14 Nov 2026
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Detections table · 479Every satellite heat detection, one by one, with time, satellite, power and coordinates.
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Times in UTC. Each detection is a 375 m pixel: a large fire yields hundreds per pass.
| Date and time | Satellite | FRP (MW) | Lat | Lon |
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Other fires nearby
- 63,138 haCook27 September 2024 · 30 days · 16 km away
- 41,052 haCook24 October 2021 · 31 days · 19 km away
- 100,501 haCook18 September 2019 · 46 days · 22 km away
- 37,228 haCook25 August 2026 · 36 days · 26 km away
- 89,903 haCook7 August 2018 · 82 days · 30 km away
- 74,391 haCook29 October 2016 · 45 days · 33 km away
Frequently asked questions
- How long did the Cook fire last?
- GWIS (Copernicus) dates it between 7 November 2026 and 15 November 2026: 9 days between the first and last heat detection of the perimeter.
- How much area did it burn?
- The perimeter GWIS (Copernicus) rebuilt from heat detections is 21,589 hectares (215.9 km²). It is an estimate: official national figures may differ.
- Which municipalities burned?
- The fire only entered Cook (21,540 ha, 0.2 %).
- Is the Cook fire still active?
- Yes: satellites detected fire on 15 Nov 2026, 04:33 UTC. Check the emergency service for the official status.
- What was the weather like?
- During the fire the temperature reached 34.3 °C, humidity dropped to 42 % and gusts hit 61 km/h. The fire danger index (FWI) reached 52, class Extreme.
- What weather is expected at the fire over the next 72 hours?
- The wind is blowing from the east and pushing westwards; no sharp shifts are expected until Thu 19, 00:00. First useful rain: 2.1 mm in 6 h (Wed 18, 11:00). Times are local time at the fire. ECMWF IFS forecast (Open-Meteo) computed 15 Nov 2026, 14:23 UTC; this is not an official warning.
- Where does this data come from?
- From the GWIS (Copernicus) burnt perimeter, NASA FIRMS VIIRS hotspots and the administrative boundaries of Australia (geoBoundaries). 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: 000 · Emergency number and official warnings
Satellite cross-check
History of this page · 1 Changes in area, dates, name, official record or merged pages, compared every night since 14 November 2026.
- Page published (5,437 ha).
RSS Changes to this page With cross-checks and a citable version
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How we know this
- Perimeter: GWIS (Copernicus), rebuilt from heat detections rather than mapped on imagery.
- Dates from the perimeter: the VIIRS detections inside it did not change them. 479 Suomi-NPP VIIRS detections on those dates.
- We have not matched this page with any official record.
- Weather: ECMWF IFS model, provisional until the ERA5 reanalysis arrives.
Where this data comes from
The perimeter comes from the Copernicus Global Wildfire Information System (GWIS), which rebuilds it from MODIS and VIIRS heat detections and publishes it under CC BY 4.0. It is not measured on imagery as in Europe, so it is an estimate. Heat detections come from the VIIRS sensors aboard Suomi-NPP and NOAA-20, distributed by NASA FIRMS at 375 m resolution. Municipal boundaries come from geoBoundaries ADM2 (Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)). The area per municipality is computed by WorldFires by crossing the perimeter with those boundaries, so it may differ from each country’s official figure.