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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.

Compare with…

Suggestions: Sac A Lait · 2019Anole · 2016

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
10 Nov 2026

How it evolved, day by day

1 Nov 2026 · 5 MW · 1 3 Nov 2026 · 0 MW · 0 4 Nov 2026 · 63 MW · 5 5 Nov 2026 · 207 MW · 10 6 Nov 2026 · 131 MW · 9 7 Nov 2026 · 195 MW · 15 8 Nov 2026 · 12 MW · 8 9 Nov 2026 · 126 MW · 20 10 Nov 2026 · 18 MW · 6
1 Nov 5 Nov 8 Nov 10 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.

What happened to each county

  1. 378 ha reached on 3 Nov
    0.7 %
  2. Iberville where it started
    196 ha reached on 1 Nov
    0.1 %
  3. 168 ha reached on 4 Nov
    0.1 %
  4. 70 ha reached on 3 Nov
    0.1 %

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 start 4.2
Minimum humidity 72 %
Days without rain 0
this fire chosen twins rest of the area
Almost identicalSimilar

Outlines of the closest twins

Sac A Lait Fire, October 2019
2,150 ha 2 days FWI 0.9 Min. humidity 70 % 224 km away, in 2019

First rain (1 mm or more) after it ended: 1.3 mm on 11 Oct.

What happened to them

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.

How we calculate it

Before and after, from space

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

Before · 25 Oct 2026
After · 10 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.

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 peak18 µg/m³
Days over the guideline0 days
PM1019 µg/m³
Optical depth0.23
4 Oct6 Oct8 Oct10 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 · 76Every 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

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.

Emergency number: 911 · Emergency number and official warnings

Satellite cross-check

History of this page · 32 Changes in area, dates, name, official record or merged pages, compared every night since 24 October 2026.
  1. Last day with fire: 24 October 2026 → 5 November 2026.
  2. Start date: 25 October 2026 → 26 October 2026.
  3. Area: ≈ 1,050 → ≈ 896 ha.
  4. Start date: 24 October 2026 → 25 October 2026.
  5. Area: ≈ 1,162 → ≈ 1,050 ha.
  6. Start date: 23 October 2026 → 24 October 2026.
  7. Area: ≈ 1,330 → ≈ 1,162 ha.
  8. Start date: 22 October 2026 → 23 October 2026.
  9. Area: ≈ 1,484 → ≈ 1,330 ha.
  10. Start date: 21 October 2026 → 22 October 2026.
  11. Area: ≈ 826 → ≈ 1,484 ha.
  12. Start date: 20 October 2026 → 21 October 2026.
  13. The page “Iberville, 19 October 2026” has been merged into this one: it was the same fire.
  14. Area: ≈ 910 → ≈ 826 ha.
  15. Start date: 19 October 2026 → 20 October 2026.
  16. Area: ≈ 686 → ≈ 798 ha.
  17. Start date: 18 October 2026 → 19 October 2026.
  18. Area: ≈ 434 → ≈ 910 ha.
  19. Start date: 18 October 2026 → 19 October 2026.
  20. Start date: 17 October 2026 → 18 October 2026.
  21. Area: ≈ 504 → ≈ 434 ha.
  22. Start date: 17 October 2026 → 18 October 2026.
  23. Page published (≈ 686 ha).
  24. Area: ≈ 1,624 → ≈ 504 ha.
  25. Start date: 16 October 2026 → 17 October 2026.
  26. Area: ≈ 854 → ≈ 1,624 ha.
  27. Start date: 15 October 2026 → 16 October 2026.
  28. The page “West Baton Rouge, 15 October 2026” has been merged into this one: it was the same fire.
  29. Area: ≈ 658 → ≈ 630 ha.
  30. Start date: 14 October 2026 → 15 October 2026.
  31. Area: ≈ 686 → ≈ 854 ha.
  32. Start date: 14 October 2026 → 15 October 2026.

RSS Changes to this page With cross-checks and a citable version

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How we know this
  • 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.

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.