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Fire near Aravan, Kyrgyzstan, 10 October 2026
What the satellites saw
Every pixel VIIRS returned inside 6 km of this fire: 0 in daylight, 1 on the night pass. A pixel is 375 m, so the squares are drawn at the size the measurement has.
Where
- Active fire
53 - Burned before
47 - Lightning first
none here - Near a road
48
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 21:25 UTC on 10 October 2026, 13 km ENE of Aravan in Osh Region, Kyrgyzstan. At its most recent pass it was putting out 0 megawatts of radiative power across 1 separate satellite detections.
The detections sit inside a single kilometre of ground.
Around 392,225 people live within 25 km.
When the satellite first saw it
In local solar time the first detection falls at 02:16, which is the dead of night. 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.
The fire was caught on a single satellite pass, so we can say when it was first seen but not how long it burned.
100% 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 2015, 2018, 2019, 2021, 2022, 2023, 2024, 2025, 2026, across 250 days, most recently on 2026-10-09.
Where analysis would go
Our screening pass scores this fire 0.60. The score ranks where analysis is worth spending.
What the screen noticed: activity compressed 168x versus a week-long release; 100% of events first seen at night (local solar), when machinery is not working.
Read from satellite detections and weather. No roads, no land cover, no ground visit.
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A detection is a heat signature at 375 m, about three hours behind the satellite. Cloud, smoke and canopy hide fires; each satellite passes twice a day. Not for evacuation or life-safety decisions — follow your local fire service.
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