Burned area
satellite only16,061ha
Perimeter published by GWIS (Copernicus).
- Source
- GWIS (Copernicus)
- Date
- 12 Sept 2024 – 30 Oct 2024
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AU · Australia · –
East Arnhem fire, 12 September 2024 East Arnhem
Out · last detection 30 Oct 2024, 03:49 UTC
The fire started on 12 September 2024 in East Arnhem, Australia, and satellites saw it burning for 49 days. Copernicus’s global GWIS system rebuilt a burnt perimeter of 16,061 hectares from heat detections, spread across a single municipality.
This page is probably a fire complex, not a single fire. GWIS merges into one perimeter the fires that touch over weeks, which in large burning seasons can join dozens of separate fires. The total area is reliable; the origin and dates refer to the whole complex.
This entry is probably a savanna fire in Australia’s tropical north, not a bushfire like those in the south of the country. Millions of hectares of northern savanna and grassland burn every year: much of it in burns lit on purpose early in the dry season (traditional fire management, parks and cattle stations), the rest in grass fires that return to the same ground every few years. This is our assumption, based on the location; it is not confirmed. That is why it is left out of the wildfire rankings.
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Duration by satellite
satellite only49days
12 Sept 2024 to 30 Oct 2024: first and last day with fire on the page.
- Source
- GWIS (Copernicus) · NASA FIRMS · VIIRS
- Date
- last detection: 30 Oct 2024, 03:49 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 only12 Sept 2024
First day with fire seen by the satellites or the perimeter.
- Source
- GWIS (Copernicus) · NASA FIRMS · VIIRS
- Date
- 12 Sept 2024
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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 only1,355
VIIRS detections at 375 m. Most intense hotspot: 166 MW.
- Source
- NASA FIRMS · VIIRS (Suomi NPP + NOAA-20)
- Date
- 12 Sept 2024 – 30 Oct 2024
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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 only978MW
Total radiative power on 12 October 2024; hotspots that day: 102.
- Source
- NASA FIRMS · VIIRS (FRP)
- Date
- 12 Oct 2024
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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
model53.6FWI · extreme
Fire Weather Index (Canadian system) computed by WorldFires for the day the fire started. Consecutive days without rain before: 60.
- Source
- WorldFires calculation (Canadian FWI system)
- Date
- 12 Sept 2024, local noon
- Model
- ERA5 0,25° (ECMWF · Copernicus C3S) · Open-Meteo.com
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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
model37.5°C · 33% RH
High of 37.5 °C and minimum humidity of 33% on 26 October 2024; gusts of 55 km/h on 17 September 2024.
- Source
- weather model at the fire’s grid cell
- Date
- 12 Sept 2024 – 30 Oct 2024
- Model
- ERA5 0,25° (ECMWF · Copernicus C3S) · Open-Meteo.com
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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 24 October 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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What was saved on 24 October 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
- 16,061 ha
- Dates
- 12 Sept 2024 – 30 Oct 2024
- Name
- East Arnhem
- Official record
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https://worldfires.org/en/fire/east-arnhem-2024-09?v=2026-10-24A 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 east-arnhem-2024-09.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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024-09-12 | 2 | 2 | 33.6 | 21 | 30 | 24.8 | 53.6 | 0 | 53.6 | extremo | 1 |
| 2024-09-13 | 27 | 144 | 35.1 | 20.5 | 28 | 18.6 | 43.2 | 0 | 52.8 | extremo | 1 |
| 2024-09-14 | 51 | 286 | 34.4 | 21.7 | 29 | 19.4 | 42.8 | 0 | 55.7 | extremo | 1 |
| 2024-09-15 | 12 | 35 | 32.5 | 23.1 | 48 | 18.8 | 49 | 0.3 | 46.7 | muy_alto | 1 |
| 2024-09-16 | 29 | 251 | 33.7 | 24.1 | 44 | 18.7 | 45.4 | 0.4 | 42.6 | muy_alto | 1 |
| 2024-09-17 | 31 | 162 | 32 | 24.3 | 49 | 22.7 | 55.1 | 0.8 | 43.9 | muy_alto | 1 |
| 2024-09-18 | 0 | 0 | 29.3 | 24 | 57 | 21.8 | 47.2 | 0.6 | 29.5 | alto | 1 |
| 2024-09-19 | 1 | 3 | 31.3 | 24 | 52 | 21.5 | 43.9 | 0.4 | 34.1 | alto | 1 |
| 2024-09-20 | 7 | 43 | 32.5 | 23.3 | 53 | 15.2 | 34.2 | 0.7 | 30.5 | alto | 1 |
| 2024-09-21 | 9 | 52 | 33.3 | 24.1 | 46 | 14.5 | 37.4 | 0 | 35.2 | alto | 1 |
| 2024-09-22 | 23 | 203 | 35.9 | 23.1 | 26 | 18 | 40 | 0 | 51.4 | extremo | 1 |
| 2024-09-23 | 13 | 44 | 32.3 | 23.5 | 56 | 15.1 | 41.4 | 0.9 | 28.7 | alto | 1 |
| 2024-09-24 | 48 | 181 | 32.8 | 24.2 | 45 | 18.9 | 38.5 | 0 | 38.6 | muy_alto | 1 |
| 2024-09-25 | 0 | 0 | 32.9 | 22.5 | 47 | 18.8 | 37.1 | 0 | 36.1 | alto | 1 |
| 2024-09-26 | 30 | 120 | 33.1 | 22.2 | 47 | 15 | 36.7 | 0.2 | 33.9 | alto | 1 |
| 2024-09-27 | 41 | 370 | 34.5 | 23.3 | 41 | 16.9 | 40.3 | 0.1 | 43.8 | muy_alto | 1 |
| 2024-09-28 | 55 | 413 | 36.7 | 23.1 | 31 | 15.7 | 39.6 | 0 | 50.3 | extremo | 1 |
| 2024-09-29 | 62 | 304 | 36.2 | 23.1 | 27 | 16.6 | 37.8 | 0 | 50.1 | extremo | 1 |
| 2024-09-30 | 69 | 450 | 35.3 | 22.9 | 34 | 17.5 | 41 | 0 | 56.3 | extremo | 1 |
| 2024-10-01 | 74 | 400 | 35.7 | 20.6 | 35 | 18.9 | 41.8 | 0 | 51.1 | extremo | 1 |
| 2024-10-02 | 45 | 524 | 35.2 | 23.7 | 34 | 21.3 | 49 | 0 | 59.9 | extremo | 1 |
| 2024-10-03 | 35 | 151 | 33.5 | 22.9 | 41 | 19.3 | 41.8 | 0 | 50.8 | extremo | 1 |
| 2024-10-04 | 16 | 65 | 33.9 | 23.2 | 40 | 18.8 | 42.1 | 0 | 49.3 | muy_alto | 1 |
| 2024-10-05 | 25 | 96 | 33.4 | 22.8 | 42 | 16.3 | 40.3 | 0.1 | 46.9 | muy_alto | 1 |
| 2024-10-06 | 23 | 140 | 34.5 | 23.2 | 35 | 18.1 | 41.4 | 0 | 47.5 | muy_alto | 1 |
| 2024-10-07 | 38 | 241 | 36.7 | 22.8 | 24 | 19.2 | 45 | 0 | 55.2 | extremo | 1 |
| 2024-10-08 | 30 | 257 | 37.1 | 22.2 | 30 | 22.6 | 48.2 | 0 | 66 | extremo | 1 |
| 2024-10-09 | 6 | 38 | 35.5 | 23.7 | 38 | 19.8 | 45 | 0 | 55.2 | extremo | 1 |
| 2024-10-10 | 53 | 199 | 36.3 | 23.4 | 34 | 16.1 | 38.2 | 0 | 49 | muy_alto | 1 |
| 2024-10-11 | 57 | 420 | 34.6 | 22.8 | 45 | 16.8 | 40 | 0.3 | 46.9 | muy_alto | 1 |
| 2024-10-12 | 102 | 978 | 35 | 24.1 | 42 | 21.4 | 48.2 | 0.1 | 50.5 | extremo | 1 |
| 2024-10-13 | 36 | 179 | 33.2 | 24.7 | 48 | 16.2 | 39.2 | 0.6 | 44.5 | muy_alto | 1 |
| 2024-10-14 | 31 | 104 | 32.3 | 23.2 | 47 | 14.5 | 36.4 | 0.1 | 32.5 | alto | 1 |
| 2024-10-15 | 33 | 95 | 34.8 | 23.8 | 37 | 18.4 | 40 | 0.5 | 39.6 | muy_alto | 1 |
| 2024-10-16 | 38 | 152 | 33.8 | 22.6 | 45 | 14.9 | 36 | 0.2 | 42.3 | muy_alto | 1 |
| 2024-10-17 | 40 | 206 | 32.9 | 24 | 47 | 14.4 | 36.4 | 0.1 | 39.8 | muy_alto | 1 |
| 2024-10-18 | 16 | 114 | 33.5 | 24.7 | 45 | 14.4 | 33.8 | 0.2 | 38.9 | muy_alto | 1 |
| 2024-10-19 | 13 | 42 | 33.9 | 25 | 46 | 14.4 | 32.4 | 0.2 | 38.1 | muy_alto | 1 |
| 2024-10-20 | 13 | 33 | 34.9 | 25.3 | 43 | 14.1 | 32.4 | 0 | 34 | alto | 1 |
| 2024-10-21 | 16 | 126 | 35.3 | 24.1 | 45 | 11.1 | 31.7 | 0 | 32.1 | alto | 1 |
| 2024-10-22 | 13 | 69 | 34 | 24.7 | 49 | 15.7 | 36 | 0.2 | 34.1 | alto | 1 |
| 2024-10-23 | 10 | 78 | 34.2 | 24.4 | 45 | 18.5 | 41.4 | 0 | 45.3 | muy_alto | 1 |
| 2024-10-24 | 11 | 57 | 33.4 | 23.9 | 49 | 14.9 | 37.8 | 0.1 | 39.7 | muy_alto | 1 |
| 2024-10-25 | 15 | 87 | 36.2 | 23.9 | 33 | 14.6 | 34.2 | 0.5 | 37.9 | alto | 1 |
| 2024-10-26 | 15 | 47 | 37.5 | 25.5 | 33 | 15.1 | 40 | 1 | 47.8 | muy_alto | 1 |
| 2024-10-27 | 26 | 135 | 34.5 | 25.3 | 50 | 17.5 | 42.8 | 0 | 33.3 | alto | 1 |
| 2024-10-28 | 1 | 3 | 34.2 | 25.7 | 53 | 17 | 52.6 | 2.5 | 28.2 | alto | 1 |
| 2024-10-29 | 2 | 15 | 33.6 | 25.2 | 52 | 20.4 | 48.2 | 0.1 | 29.6 | alto | 1 |
| 2024-10-30 | 12 | 79 | 34.6 | 25.8 | 49 | 20.4 | 46.4 | 1 | 38.4 | muy_alto | 1 |
| 2024-10-31 | 0 | 0 | 32.8 | 25.4 | 55 | 17.9 | 41 | 3.1 | 30.7 | alto | 0 |
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- Burnt area
- 16,061ha
- GWIS perimeter (Copernicus)
- Duration
- 49days
- 12 Sept 2024 – 30 Oct 2024
- Municipalities hit
- 1
- local government areas
- Started on
- 12 Sept
- 2024
- Heat detections
- 1,355
- in a single hotspot: 166 MW
- Danger at start
- 54
- Extreme · FWI index
- Average daily power
- 174MW
- detected power per day, on average
Where it burned
HOTSPOTS BY DAY
12 Sept30 Oct
30 Oct 2024
How it evolved, day by day
12 Sept
23 Sept
4 Oct
12 Oct
24 Oct
Fire radiative power detected each day, in megawatts, and number of hotspots. The magenta bar marks the peak day.
The weather it burned in
38°high
55km/h · peak gust
24%lowest humidity
It had gone more than two months without rain (1 mm or more) when it started. Rain came after the fire: 3.1 mm on 31 Oct.
This area had burned before
94% of the perimeter overlaps earlier fires recorded since 2016: 1,873 ha in 2016, 2,849 ha in 2017, 8,510 ha in 2018, 7,440 ha in 2019, 6,345 ha in 2020, 8,141 ha in 2021, 422 ha in 2023. Part of it burned more than once, so the yearly figures add up to more than the 15,118 ha that had burned before.
- 5,796 ha East Arnhem fire, August 2019 7,294 ha in total; the hectares shown are those it shares with this fire
- 5,183 ha East Arnhem fire, September 2021 8,051 ha in total; the hectares shown are those it shares with this fire
- 2,849 ha East Arnhem fire, October 2017 5,486 ha in total; the hectares shown are those it shares with this fire
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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East Arnhem where it started15,867 ha reached on 12 Sept0.5 %
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.
People and buildings inside the perimeter
GHSL 2025Built-up area< 0.1 ha
Residents< 20
Inside the perimeter there was no noticeable built-up land and almost nobody lived there (GHSL 2025, satellite-based estimate).
This is an estimate on 100 m cells, made from satellite imagery and census data: it does not mean that homes burned or that anyone was harmed. The perimeter also contains land that never burned. The GHSL 2025 epoch is a projection made from 2020 and earlier data.
Source: Global Human Settlement Layer (GHS-BUILT-S and GHS-POP R2023A), European Commission Joint Research Centre (JRC), © European Union, CC BY 4.0. Sum inside the perimeter computed by WorldFires. human-settlement.emergency.copernicus.eu
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) · Copernicus Climate Change Service (ERA5)
Started with Extreme FWI: 43 % of the area in Australia Strong wind: 39 % of the area in Australia 60 days without rain: 8.2 % of the area in Australia
| Day | High | Min. humidity | Peak gust | Rain | Danger (FWI) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 12 Sept | 33.6 °C | 30 % | 54 km/h | 0.0 mm | Extreme 54 |
| 13 Sept | 35.1 °C | 28 % | 43 km/h | 0.0 mm | Extreme 53 |
| 14 Sept | 34.4 °C | 29 % | 43 km/h | 0.0 mm | Extreme 56 |
| 15 Sept | 32.5 °C | 48 % | 49 km/h | 0.3 mm | Very high 47 |
| 16 Sept | 33.7 °C | 44 % | 45 km/h | 0.4 mm | Very high 43 |
| 17 Sept | 32.0 °C | 49 % | 55 km/h | 0.8 mm | Very high 44 |
| 18 Sept | 29.3 °C | 57 % | 47 km/h | 0.6 mm | High 30 |
| 19 Sept | 31.3 °C | 52 % | 44 km/h | 0.4 mm | High 34 |
| 20 Sept | 32.5 °C | 53 % | 34 km/h | 0.7 mm | High 30 |
| 21 Sept | 33.3 °C | 46 % | 37 km/h | 0.0 mm | High 35 |
| 22 Sept | 35.9 °C | 26 % | 40 km/h | 0.0 mm | Extreme 51 |
| 23 Sept | 32.3 °C | 56 % | 41 km/h | 0.9 mm | High 29 |
| 24 Sept | 32.8 °C | 45 % | 38 km/h | 0.0 mm | Very high 39 |
| 25 Sept | 32.9 °C | 47 % | 37 km/h | 0.0 mm | High 36 |
| 26 Sept | 33.1 °C | 47 % | 37 km/h | 0.2 mm | High 34 |
| 27 Sept | 34.5 °C | 41 % | 40 km/h | 0.1 mm | Very high 44 |
| 28 Sept | 36.7 °C | 31 % | 40 km/h | 0.0 mm | Extreme 50 |
| 29 Sept | 36.2 °C | 27 % | 38 km/h | 0.0 mm | Extreme 50 |
| 30 Sept | 35.3 °C | 34 % | 41 km/h | 0.0 mm | Extreme 56 |
| 1 Oct | 35.7 °C | 35 % | 42 km/h | 0.0 mm | Extreme 51 |
| 2 Oct | 35.2 °C | 34 % | 49 km/h | 0.0 mm | Extreme 60 |
| 3 Oct | 33.5 °C | 41 % | 42 km/h | 0.0 mm | Extreme 51 |
| 4 Oct | 33.9 °C | 40 % | 42 km/h | 0.0 mm | Very high 49 |
| 5 Oct | 33.4 °C | 42 % | 40 km/h | 0.1 mm | Very high 47 |
| 6 Oct | 34.5 °C | 35 % | 41 km/h | 0.0 mm | Very high 48 |
| 7 Oct | 36.7 °C | 24 % | 45 km/h | 0.0 mm | Extreme 55 |
| 8 Oct | 37.1 °C | 30 % | 48 km/h | 0.0 mm | Extreme 66 |
| 9 Oct | 35.5 °C | 38 % | 45 km/h | 0.0 mm | Extreme 55 |
| 10 Oct | 36.3 °C | 34 % | 38 km/h | 0.0 mm | Very high 49 |
| 11 Oct | 34.6 °C | 45 % | 40 km/h | 0.3 mm | Very high 47 |
| 12 Oct | 35.0 °C | 42 % | 48 km/h | 0.1 mm | Extreme 50 |
| 13 Oct | 33.2 °C | 48 % | 39 km/h | 0.6 mm | Very high 44 |
| 14 Oct | 32.3 °C | 47 % | 36 km/h | 0.1 mm | High 32 |
| 15 Oct | 34.8 °C | 37 % | 40 km/h | 0.5 mm | Very high 40 |
| 16 Oct | 33.8 °C | 45 % | 36 km/h | 0.2 mm | Very high 42 |
| 17 Oct | 32.9 °C | 47 % | 36 km/h | 0.1 mm | Very high 40 |
| 18 Oct | 33.5 °C | 45 % | 34 km/h | 0.2 mm | Very high 39 |
| 19 Oct | 33.9 °C | 46 % | 32 km/h | 0.2 mm | Very high 38 |
| 20 Oct | 34.9 °C | 43 % | 32 km/h | 0.0 mm | High 34 |
| 21 Oct | 35.3 °C | 45 % | 32 km/h | 0.0 mm | High 32 |
| 22 Oct | 34.0 °C | 49 % | 36 km/h | 0.2 mm | High 34 |
| 23 Oct | 34.2 °C | 45 % | 41 km/h | 0.0 mm | Very high 45 |
| 24 Oct | 33.4 °C | 49 % | 38 km/h | 0.1 mm | Very high 40 |
| 25 Oct | 36.2 °C | 33 % | 34 km/h | 0.5 mm | High 38 |
| 26 Oct | 37.5 °C | 33 % | 40 km/h | 1.0 mm | Very high 48 |
| 27 Oct | 34.5 °C | 50 % | 43 km/h | 0.0 mm | High 33 |
| 28 Oct | 34.2 °C | 53 % | 53 km/h | 2.5 mm | High 28 |
| 29 Oct | 33.6 °C | 52 % | 48 km/h | 0.1 mm | High 30 |
| 30 Oct | 34.6 °C | 49 % | 46 km/h | 1.0 mm | Very high 38 |
| 31 Oct after | 32.8 °C | 55 % | 41 km/h | 3.1 mm | High 31 |
Before and after, from space
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Before · 5 Sept 2024
After · 6 Nov 2024
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The smoke
CAMS · CopernicusOn 22 September 2024 the air beside the fire reached 31 µg/m³ of PM2.5, but no daily average passed the WHO guideline (15).
PM2.5 peak31 µg/m³
Days over the guideline0 days
PM1046 µg/m³
Optical depth0.50
WHO 15
10 Sept21 Sept2 Oct13 Oct24 Oct
Good
Fair
Moderate
Poor
Very poor
Extremely poor
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 · 1,355Every 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
- 17,662 haEast Arnhem22 September 2018 · 47 days · 28 km away
- 18,532 haEast Arnhem10 August 2020 · 37 days · 29 km away
- 16,578 haEast Arnhem17 September 2018 · 58 days · 34 km away
- 16,384 haEast Arnhem19 August 2017 · 23 days · 38 km away
- 16,875 haEast Arnhem29 August 2022 · 21 days · 39 km away
- 12,721 haEast ArnhemJuly 2024 · 8 days · 39 km away
Frequently asked questions
- How long did the East Arnhem fire last?
- GWIS (Copernicus) dates it between 12 September 2024 and 30 October 2024: 49 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 16,061 hectares (160.6 km²). It is an estimate: official national figures may differ.
- Which municipalities burned?
- The fire only entered East Arnhem (15,867 ha, 0.5 %).
- What was the weather like?
- During the fire the temperature reached 37.5 °C, humidity dropped to 24 % and gusts hit 55 km/h. The fire danger index (FWI) reached 66, class Extreme.
- 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 Changes in area, dates, name, official record or merged pages, compared every night since 24 October 2026.
No changes since 24 October 2026.
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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. 1,355 Suomi-NPP VIIRS detections on those dates.
- We have not matched this page with any official record.
- Weather: Copernicus ERA5 reanalysis at the fire location, in cells of about 25 km.
- Built-up area and population come from the JRC Global Human Settlement Layer (epoch 2025, 100 m cells), summed inside the perimeter: an estimate of what was there, not a damage count.
- Probably a vegetation burn: not counted in the totals.
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.