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Fresno fire, November 2026 Fresno

Burning · last detection 14 Nov 2026, 10:42 UTC

Satellites first detected fire on 12 November 2026 in Fresno, United States. It has been active for 3 days, with 34 heat detections and an area with fire of about 406 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 14 Nov 2026, 10:42 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
≈ 406ha
rebuilt from hotspots, no official perimeter yet
Duration
3days
12 Nov 2026 – 14 Nov 2026
Counties hit
1
counties
Started on
12 Nov
2026
Heat detections
34
in a single hotspot: 162 MW
Average daily power
242MW
detected power per day, on average

Where it burned

HOTSPOTS BY DAY 12 Nov14 Nov
14 Nov 2026

How it evolved, day by day

12 Nov 2026 · 662 MW · 16 13 Nov 2026 · 51 MW · 12 14 Nov 2026 · 12 MW · 6
12 Nov 13 Nov 14 Nov

Fire radiative power detected each day, in megawatts, and number of hotspots. The magenta bar marks the peak day.

What happened to each county

  1. Fresno where it started
    406 ha reached on 12 Nov
    0.0 %

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.

Before and after, from space

Drag the line to compare the same ground before the fire and after it.

Before · 5 Nov 2026
After · 13 Nov 2026

If the day is cloudy, change the date: each satellite passes once a day. In false colour the burnt ground looks brown or red.

Detections table · 34Every satellite heat detection, one by one, with time, satellite, power and coordinates.
⬇ Download CSV Times in UTC. Each detection is a 375 m pixel: a large fire yields hundreds per pass.
Date and timeSatelliteFRP (MW)LatLon

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Frequently asked questions

How long did the Fresno fire last?
According to the heat detections seen by satellite, it burned from 12 November 2026 to 14 November 2026 (3 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 406 hectares with fire (4.1 km²).
Which counties burned?
The fire only entered Fresno (406 ha, 0.0 %).
Is the Fresno fire still active?
Yes: satellites detected fire on 14 Nov 2026, 10:42 UTC. Check the emergency service for the official status.
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

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How we know this
  • No perimeter yet: the area (≈ 406 ha) is estimated by counting VIIRS pixels with fire, about 14 ha each.
  • Dates of the first and last VIIRS detection of the cluster. 34 Suomi-NPP VIIRS detections on those dates.

How we build fire pages: methodology

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.