Iberville fire, November 2026
West Baton Rouge, Iberville, Pointe Coupee
Dying down · last detection 10 Nov 2026, 19:53 UTC
Satellites first detected fire on 1 November 2026 in Iberville, United States. It has been active for 10 days, with 76 heat detections and an area with fire of about 812 hectares rebuilt from them, spread across 4 counties.
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Burned area
satellite only
≈ 812ha
Estimated from hotspots: no perimeter has been published yet.
Source
NASA FIRMS · VIIRS
Date
1 Nov 2026 – 10 Nov 2026
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This is an estimate from the VIIRS pixels that saw fire. It will change when the perimeter is published.
Duration by satellite
satellite only
10days
From 1 Nov 2026 to today: still being detected.
Source
NASA FIRMS · VIIRS
Date
last detection: 10 Nov 2026, 19:53 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 only
1 Nov 2026
First day with fire seen by the satellites or the perimeter.
Source
NASA FIRMS · VIIRS
Date
1 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 only
76
VIIRS detections at 375 m. Most intense hotspot: 61 MW.
Source
NASA FIRMS · VIIRS (Suomi NPP + NOAA-20)
Date
1 Nov 2026 – 10 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 only
207MW
Total radiative power on 5 November 2026; hotspots that day: 10.
Source
NASA FIRMS · VIIRS (FRP)
Date
5 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
model
4.2FWI · very low
Fire Weather Index (Canadian system) computed by WorldFires for the day the fire started. Consecutive days without rain before: 0.
Source
WorldFires calculation (Canadian FWI system)
Date
1 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
model
27.7°C · 65% RH
High of 27.7 °C and minimum humidity of 65% on 3 November 2026; gusts of 38 km/h on 2 November 2026.
Source
weather model at the fire’s grid cell
Date
1 Nov 2026 – 10 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 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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Weather and FWI computed from the forecast (provisional until ERA5 arrives)
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Last day with fire: 24 October 2026 → 5 November 2026.
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Start date: 25 October 2026 → 26 October 2026.
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Area: ≈ 1,050 → ≈ 896 ha.
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Start date: 24 October 2026 → 25 October 2026.
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Area: ≈ 1,162 → ≈ 1,050 ha.
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Start date: 23 October 2026 → 24 October 2026.
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Area: ≈ 1,330 → ≈ 1,162 ha.
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Start date: 22 October 2026 → 23 October 2026.
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Area: ≈ 1,484 → ≈ 1,330 ha.
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Start date: 21 October 2026 → 22 October 2026.
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Area: ≈ 826 → ≈ 1,484 ha.
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Start date: 20 October 2026 → 21 October 2026.
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The page “Iberville, 19 October 2026” has been merged into this one: it was the same fire.
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Area: ≈ 910 → ≈ 826 ha.
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Start date: 19 October 2026 → 20 October 2026.
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Area: ≈ 686 → ≈ 798 ha.
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Start date: 18 October 2026 → 19 October 2026.
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Area: ≈ 434 → ≈ 910 ha.
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Start date: 18 October 2026 → 19 October 2026.
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Start date: 17 October 2026 → 18 October 2026.
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Area: ≈ 504 → ≈ 434 ha.
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Start date: 17 October 2026 → 18 October 2026.
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Page published (≈ 686 ha).
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Area: ≈ 1,624 → ≈ 504 ha.
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Start date: 16 October 2026 → 17 October 2026.
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Area: ≈ 854 → ≈ 1,624 ha.
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Start date: 15 October 2026 → 16 October 2026.
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The page “West Baton Rouge, 15 October 2026” has been merged into this one: it was the same fire.
A 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
A lede of about 60 words figures only, no adjectives
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?
No detections since 10 Nov 2026, 19:53 UTC. That usually means no flame is visible from space any more, although hotspots may remain. 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
≈ 812ha
rebuilt from hotspots, no official perimeter yet
Duration
10days
1 Nov 2026 – 10 Nov 2026
Counties hit
4
counties
Started on
1 Nov
2026
Heat detections
76
in a single hotspot: 61 MW
Danger at start
4
Very low · FWI index
Average daily power
94MW
detected power per day, on average
Where it burned
HOTSPOTS BY DAY
1 Nov10 Nov
Play back10 Nov 2026
How it evolved, day by day
1 Nov5 Nov8 Nov10 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
28°high
38km/h · peak gust
39%lowest humidity
It had gone 0 days without rain (1 mm or more) when it started.
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)
1 Nov
27.4 °C
72 %
29 km/h
3.3 mm
Very low 4
2 Nov
25.7 °C
74 %
38 km/h
0.7 mm
Low 6
3 Nov
27.7 °C
65 %
34 km/h
4.6 mm
Low 8
4 Nov
24.7 °C
57 %
26 km/h
2.7 mm
Very low 2
5 Nov
25.0 °C
51 %
14 km/h
0.0 mm
Very low 3
6 Nov
25.6 °C
44 %
20 km/h
0.0 mm
Low 10
7 Nov
23.0 °C
50 %
24 km/h
0.0 mm
Low 11
8 Nov
19.7 °C
42 %
20 km/h
0.0 mm
Moderate 12
9 Nov
22.5 °C
39 %
18 km/h
0.3 mm
Moderate 13
10 Nov
24.1 °C
42 %
16 km/h
0.0 mm
Moderate 12
Its twins: fires that started in the same weather
It started with an FWI of 4.2, a minimum humidity of 72% and rain the day before. Fires in the area that started in weather like this since 2016: 4.
FWI at the start4.2
Minimum humidity72 %
Days without rain0
this firechosen twinsrest of the area
Almost identicalSimilar
Outlines of the closest twins
Sac A Lait Fire, October 2019
2,150 ha2 daysFWI 0.9Min. humidity 70 %224 km away, in 2019
First rain (1 mm or more) after it ended: 1.3 mm on 11 Oct.
Fires in the area that started in similar weather: 4. With fewer than 15 we give no figures: they would be more noise than signal.
This is a bank of analogues: it shows what usually happens, not what will happen. With fewer than 15 twins we give no figures. How we calculate it
How a twin is chosen
Same area: fires that have already ended, less than 250 km from this one, since 2016.
Same start: we compare the FWI on the first day, the minimum humidity that day and the run of days without rain before it. The slider sets how much they may differ.
Only pages with final weather data (ERA5 reanalysis) calculated in the same way as this fire’s; agricultural and grass burns and pages with data under review are left out.
Fires burning at the same time as this one (a week before or after) are left out: they share the same spell of weather and do not count as a precedent.
They are sorted by similarity, and the outlines of the first five are drawn.
Drag the line to compare the same ground before the fire and after it.
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Before · 25 Oct 2026
After · 10 Nov 2026
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The smoke
CAMS · Copernicus
On 7 October 2026 the air beside the fire reached 18 µg/m³ of PM2.5, but no daily average passed the WHO guideline (15).
PM2.5 peak18µg/m³
Days over the guideline0days
PM1019µg/m³
Optical depth0.23
WHO 15
4 Oct6 Oct8 Oct10 Oct
GoodFairModeratePoorVery poorExtremely 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· 76Every satellite heat detection, one by one, with time, satellite, power and coordinates.›
⬇ Download CSVTimes in UTC. Each detection is a 375 m pixel: a large fire yields hundreds per pass.
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Frequently asked questions
How long did the Iberville fire last?
According to the heat detections seen by satellite, it burned from 1 November 2026 to 10 November 2026 (10 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 812 hectares with fire (8.1 km²).
Which counties burned?
The fire entered 4 counties: West Baton Rouge (378 ha, 0.7 %); Iberville (196 ha, 0.1 %); Pointe Coupee (168 ha, 0.1 %); East Baton Rouge (70 ha, 0.1 %).
Is the Iberville fire still active?
No fire detections since 10 Nov 2026, 19:53 UTC. A lack of detections is not an official extinction.
What was the weather like?
During the fire the temperature reached 27.7 °C, humidity dropped to 39 % and gusts hit 38 km/h. The fire danger index (FWI) reached 13, class Moderate.
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.
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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No perimeter yet: the area (≈ 812 ha) is estimated by counting VIIRS pixels with fire, about 14 ha each.
Dates of the first and last VIIRS detection of the cluster. 76 Suomi-NPP VIIRS detections on those dates.
Weather: ECMWF IFS model, provisional until the ERA5 reanalysis arrives.
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.