Burned area
satellite only11,453ha
Perimeter published by GWIS (Copernicus).
- Source
- GWIS (Copernicus)
- Date
- 13 Aug 2025 – 2 Sept 2025
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AU · Australia · –
Unincorporated NT fire, August 2025 Unincorporated NT
Out · last detection 2 Sept 2025, 04:35 UTC
The fire started on 13 August 2025 in Unincorporated NT, Australia, and satellites saw it burning for 21 days. Copernicus’s global GWIS system rebuilt a burnt perimeter of 11,453 hectares from heat detections, spread across a single municipality.
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 only21days
13 Aug 2025 to 2 Sept 2025: first and last day with fire on the page.
- Source
- GWIS (Copernicus) · NASA FIRMS · VIIRS
- Date
- last detection: 2 Sept 2025, 04:35 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 only13 Aug 2025
First day with fire seen by the satellites or the perimeter.
- Source
- GWIS (Copernicus) · NASA FIRMS · VIIRS
- Date
- 13 Aug 2025
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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 only401
VIIRS detections at 375 m. Most intense hotspot: 87 MW.
- Source
- NASA FIRMS · VIIRS (Suomi NPP)
- Date
- 13 Aug 2025 – 2 Sept 2025
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The worst day
satellite only634MW
Total radiative power on 20 August 2025; hotspots that day: 44.
- Source
- NASA FIRMS · VIIRS (FRP)
- Date
- 20 Aug 2025
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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
model37.9FWI · high
Fire Weather Index (Canadian system) computed by WorldFires for the day the fire started. Consecutive days without rain before: 11.
- Source
- WorldFires calculation (Canadian FWI system)
- Date
- 13 Aug 2025, 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
model36.1°C · 22% RH
High of 36.1 °C and minimum humidity of 22% on 30 August 2025; gusts of 47 km/h on 14 August 2025.
- Source
- weather model at the fire’s grid cell
- Date
- 13 Aug 2025 – 2 Sept 2025
- 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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logLast day with fire: 27 August 2025 → 2 September 2025.
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· reconstructed weatherWeather and FWI computed from the ERA5 reanalysis
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· reconstructed GHSLPopulation and built-up area computed
What was saved on 26 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
- 11,453 ha
- Dates
- 13 Aug 2025 – 2 Sept 2025
- Name
- Unincorporated NT
- Official record
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Versioned permanent link
https://worldfires.org/en/fire/unincorporated-nt-2025-08?v=2026-10-26A 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
CSV for this fire unincorporated-nt-2025-08.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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025-08-13 | 22 | 301 | 33.1 | 14.2 | 30 | 14.4 | 33.1 | 0 | 37.9 | alto | 1 |
| 2025-08-14 | 45 | 286 | 32.9 | 19 | 28 | 20.3 | 46.8 | 0 | 44.1 | muy_alto | 1 |
| 2025-08-15 | 21 | 67 | 32.1 | 16.9 | 23 | 18.6 | 46.8 | 0 | 42.7 | muy_alto | 1 |
| 2025-08-16 | 31 | 176 | 32.2 | 14.9 | 19 | 15.2 | 37.1 | 0 | 40.6 | muy_alto | 1 |
| 2025-08-17 | 23 | 95 | 31.6 | 14.5 | 19 | 19.4 | 45 | 0 | 45.2 | muy_alto | 1 |
| 2025-08-18 | 33 | 395 | 30.7 | 14.6 | 18 | 17.7 | 41 | 0 | 43.8 | muy_alto | 1 |
| 2025-08-19 | 50 | 208 | 30.3 | 13.9 | 17 | 18 | 41.8 | 0 | 44.4 | muy_alto | 1 |
| 2025-08-20 | 44 | 634 | 31.3 | 13.5 | 24 | 16 | 37.1 | 0 | 42.7 | muy_alto | 1 |
| 2025-08-21 | 41 | 207 | 32.7 | 13.8 | 27 | 12.3 | 27.4 | 0 | 38.8 | muy_alto | 1 |
| 2025-08-22 | 30 | 130 | 34.8 | 16.9 | 27 | 10.5 | 27.4 | 0 | 37.5 | alto | 1 |
| 2025-08-23 | 9 | 53 | 35.1 | 17.8 | 23 | 14.7 | 36 | 0 | 41.7 | muy_alto | 1 |
| 2025-08-24 | 1 | 0 | 35.2 | 16.4 | 18 | 12.6 | 31.3 | 0 | 41.8 | muy_alto | 1 |
| 2025-08-25 | 10 | 22 | 35.3 | 15.5 | 22 | 12.4 | 25.2 | 0 | 41.9 | muy_alto | 1 |
| 2025-08-26 | 11 | 63 | 34.7 | 17 | 25 | 12.7 | 22.7 | 0 | 42.3 | muy_alto | 1 |
| 2025-08-27 | 15 | 86 | 34.6 | 18.7 | 29 | 12.6 | 24.8 | 0 | 39.9 | muy_alto | 1 |
| 2025-08-28 | 0 | 0 | 34.3 | 20.7 | 35 | 11.7 | 22 | 0 | 35.4 | alto | 1 |
| 2025-08-29 | 0 | 0 | 34.9 | 22.6 | 35 | 12.7 | 24.5 | 0 | 36.1 | alto | 1 |
| 2025-08-30 | 0 | 0 | 36.1 | 21.3 | 22 | 16.6 | 35.6 | 0 | 43.7 | muy_alto | 1 |
| 2025-08-31 | 7 | 35 | 34 | 21.3 | 26 | 19.5 | 42.1 | 0 | 47 | muy_alto | 1 |
| 2025-09-01 | 7 | 69 | 34.1 | 18.9 | 19 | 14.4 | 36.7 | 0 | 42.8 | muy_alto | 1 |
| 2025-09-02 | 1 | 3 | 33.9 | 15.9 | 17 | 14.9 | 37.4 | 0 | 44.9 | muy_alto | 1 |
| 2025-09-03 | 0 | 0 | 32.6 | 15.7 | 18 | 9.9 | 26.3 | 0 | 40.1 | muy_alto | 0 |
| 2025-09-04 | 0 | 0 | 33.3 | 14.6 | 28 | 11.2 | 22.7 | 0 | 39.1 | muy_alto | 0 |
| 2025-09-05 | 0 | 0 | 34.7 | 18.5 | 36 | 13.6 | 29.2 | 0 | 37.1 | alto | 0 |
| 2025-09-06 | 0 | 0 | 36 | 21.9 | 39 | 15.5 | 34.2 | 0.4 | 37.4 | alto | 0 |
| 2025-09-07 | 0 | 0 | 36.8 | 24.1 | 32 | 19.1 | 39.6 | 0.1 | 41 | muy_alto | 0 |
| 2025-09-08 | 0 | 0 | 34.9 | 23.4 | 38 | 19.5 | 46.8 | 0 | 41.1 | muy_alto | 0 |
| 2025-09-09 | 0 | 0 | 36.2 | 21.3 | 28 | 15.8 | 30.2 | 0 | 39.2 | muy_alto | 0 |
| 2025-09-10 | 0 | 0 | 34.4 | 22.2 | 36 | 15.7 | 29.5 | 0 | 38.6 | muy_alto | 0 |
| 2025-09-11 | 0 | 0 | 36.3 | 23 | 32 | 18.2 | 34.9 | 0 | 41.1 | muy_alto | 0 |
| 2025-09-12 | 0 | 0 | 32.3 | 22.7 | 24 | 16.4 | 38.9 | 0 | 40.3 | muy_alto | 0 |
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- Burnt area
- 11,453ha
- GWIS perimeter (Copernicus)
- Duration
- 21days
- 13 Aug 2025 – 2 Sept 2025
- Municipalities hit
- 1
- local government areas
- Started on
- 13 Aug
- 2025
- Heat detections
- 401
- in a single hotspot: 87 MW
- Danger at start
- 38
- High · FWI index
- Average daily power
- 157MW
- detected power per day, on average
Where it burned
HOTSPOTS BY DAY
13 Aug2 Sept
2 Sept 2025
How it evolved, day by day
13 Aug
17 Aug
20 Aug
25 Aug
1 Sept
Fire radiative power detected each day, in megawatts, and number of hotspots. The magenta bar marks the peak day.
The weather it burned in
36°high
47km/h · peak gust
17%lowest humidity
It had gone 11 days without rain (1 mm or more) when it started.
This area had burned before
99% of the perimeter overlaps earlier fires recorded since 2016: 6,934 ha in 2016, 918 ha in 2017, 6,813 ha in 2018, 6,865 ha in 2019, 3,817 ha in 2020, 2,312 ha in 2021, 5,234 ha in 2022, 2,815 ha in 2023, 5,262 ha in 2024. Part of it burned more than once, so the yearly figures add up to more than the 11,329 ha that had burned before.
- 6,077 ha Unincorporated NT fire, August 2016 11,032 ha in total; the hectares shown are those it shares with this fire
- 4,381 ha Unincorporated NT fire, June 2019 19,300 ha in total; the hectares shown are those it shares with this fire
- 1,649 ha Unincorporated NT fire, May 2020 22,209 ha in total; the hectares shown are those it shares with this fire
- 25 ha Unincorporated NT fire, July 2018 9,522 ha in total; the hectares shown are those it shares with this fire
- 19 ha Unincorporated NT fire, May 2022 5,044 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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Unincorporated NT where it started11,205 ha reached on 13 Aug0.6 %
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 area0.20 ha
Residents< 20
Inside the perimeter there were about 0.20 hectares of 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)
| Day | High | Min. humidity | Peak gust | Rain | Danger (FWI) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 13 Aug | 33.1 °C | 30 % | 33 km/h | 0.0 mm | High 38 |
| 14 Aug | 32.9 °C | 28 % | 47 km/h | 0.0 mm | Very high 44 |
| 15 Aug | 32.1 °C | 23 % | 47 km/h | 0.0 mm | Very high 43 |
| 16 Aug | 32.2 °C | 19 % | 37 km/h | 0.0 mm | Very high 41 |
| 17 Aug | 31.6 °C | 19 % | 45 km/h | 0.0 mm | Very high 45 |
| 18 Aug | 30.7 °C | 18 % | 41 km/h | 0.0 mm | Very high 44 |
| 19 Aug | 30.3 °C | 17 % | 42 km/h | 0.0 mm | Very high 44 |
| 20 Aug | 31.3 °C | 24 % | 37 km/h | 0.0 mm | Very high 43 |
| 21 Aug | 32.7 °C | 27 % | 27 km/h | 0.0 mm | Very high 39 |
| 22 Aug | 34.8 °C | 27 % | 27 km/h | 0.0 mm | High 38 |
| 23 Aug | 35.1 °C | 23 % | 36 km/h | 0.0 mm | Very high 42 |
| 24 Aug | 35.2 °C | 18 % | 31 km/h | 0.0 mm | Very high 42 |
| 25 Aug | 35.3 °C | 22 % | 25 km/h | 0.0 mm | Very high 42 |
| 26 Aug | 34.7 °C | 25 % | 23 km/h | 0.0 mm | Very high 42 |
| 27 Aug | 34.6 °C | 29 % | 25 km/h | 0.0 mm | Very high 40 |
| 28 Aug | 34.3 °C | 35 % | 22 km/h | 0.0 mm | High 35 |
| 29 Aug | 34.9 °C | 35 % | 24 km/h | 0.0 mm | High 36 |
| 30 Aug | 36.1 °C | 22 % | 36 km/h | 0.0 mm | Very high 44 |
| 31 Aug | 34.0 °C | 26 % | 42 km/h | 0.0 mm | Very high 47 |
| 1 Sept | 34.1 °C | 19 % | 37 km/h | 0.0 mm | Very high 43 |
| 2 Sept | 33.9 °C | 17 % | 37 km/h | 0.0 mm | Very high 45 |
| 3 Sept after | 32.6 °C | 18 % | 26 km/h | 0.0 mm | Very high 40 |
| 4 Sept after | 33.3 °C | 28 % | 23 km/h | 0.0 mm | Very high 39 |
| 5 Sept after | 34.7 °C | 36 % | 29 km/h | 0.0 mm | High 37 |
| 6 Sept after | 36.0 °C | 39 % | 34 km/h | 0.4 mm | High 37 |
| 7 Sept after | 36.8 °C | 32 % | 40 km/h | 0.1 mm | Very high 41 |
| 8 Sept after | 34.9 °C | 38 % | 47 km/h | 0.0 mm | Very high 41 |
| 9 Sept after | 36.2 °C | 28 % | 30 km/h | 0.0 mm | Very high 39 |
| 10 Sept after | 34.4 °C | 36 % | 30 km/h | 0.0 mm | Very high 39 |
| 11 Sept after | 36.3 °C | 32 % | 35 km/h | 0.0 mm | Very high 41 |
| 12 Sept after | 32.3 °C | 24 % | 39 km/h | 0.0 mm | Very high 40 |
Before and after, from space
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Before · 6 Aug 2025
After · 9 Sept 2025
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The smoke
CAMS · CopernicusOn 21 August 2025 the air beside the fire reached 24 µg/m³ of PM2.5. That day averaged 15: 1.0 times the WHO daily guideline (15).
PM2.5 peak24 µg/m³
Days over the guideline1 day
PM1025 µg/m³
Optical depth0.39
WHO 15
11 Aug15 Aug19 Aug23 Aug27 Aug
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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 · 401Every 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
- 22,784 haWest Arnhem6 July 2026 · 13 days · 20 km away
- 22,209 haUnincorporated NTMay 2020 · 12 days · 24 km away
- 23,580 haWest Arnhem2 May 2022 · 9 days · 30 km away
- 22,782 haVictoria Daly10 June 2022 · 14 days · 32 km away
- 70,894 haWest Arnhem15 August 2026 · 62 days · 33 km away
- 24,232 haVictoria Daly3 July 2020 · 16 days · 40 km away
Frequently asked questions
- How long did the Unincorporated NT fire last?
- According to the heat detections seen by satellite inside the perimeter, it burned from 13 August 2025 to 2 September 2025 (21 days). The perimeter dates it from 13 August 2025 to 27 August 2025.
- How much area did it burn?
- The perimeter GWIS (Copernicus) rebuilt from heat detections is 11,453 hectares (114.5 km²). It is an estimate: official national figures may differ.
- Which municipalities burned?
- The fire only entered Unincorporated NT (11,205 ha, 0.6 %).
- What was the weather like?
- During the fire the temperature reached 36.1 °C, humidity dropped to 17 % and gusts hit 47 km/h. The fire danger index (FWI) reached 47, class Very high.
- 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 24 October 2026.
- Last day with fire: 27 August 2025 → 2 September 2025.
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How we know this
- Perimeter: GWIS (Copernicus), rebuilt from heat detections rather than mapped on imagery.
- Dates adjusted with the VIIRS detections inside the perimeter, which said 13 August 2025 to 27 August 2025. 401 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.