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Fire near Aïn el Bya, Algeria, 10 October 2026
What the satellites saw
Every pixel VIIRS returned inside 8 km of this fire: 10 in daylight, 24 on the night pass. A pixel is 375 m, so the squares are drawn at the size the measurement has.
Where
- Active fire
51 - Burned before
37 - Lightning first
none here - Near a road
42
Coastline and borders from Natural Earth at 110 m — regional context, not a survey. Each layer above is its own address, so a view can be shared.
A fire was first detected here at 11:53 UTC on 10 October 2026, 3 km ENE of Aïn el Bya in Oran, Algeria. At its most recent pass it was putting out 124 megawatts of radiative power across 34 separate satellite detections.
The detections span about 3.7 km of ground.
Around 181,877 people live within 25 km.
When the satellite first saw it
In local solar time the first detection falls at 11:52, which is late morning. VIIRS passes about 01:30 and 13:30 local solar, so this is when the satellite looked: the fire began somewhere in the twelve hours before.
It was seen across 15.0 hours of satellite passes.
71% of the detections came from the night pass.
What this ground has done before
This ground has burned before. Our archive records fire here in 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023, 2024, 2025, 2026, across 4,566 days, most recently on 2026-10-09.
Wind and weather
At the fire, wind was 14 km/h from the ENE, carrying smoke and embers towards the WSW. Temperature 23°C, relative humidity 61%.
Twelve hours on, the forecast has wind at 5 km/h from the NNE. These are model figures at roughly 10 km resolution, not a reading taken at the fire.
Where analysis would go
Our screening pass scores this fire 0.65. The score ranks where analysis is worth spending.
What the screen noticed: 4 distinct events; activity compressed 13x versus a week-long release; 75% of events first seen at night (local solar), when machinery is not working; 12 detections per event - large spreading fires, not many ignitions.
Read from satellite detections and weather. No roads, no land cover, no ground visit.
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