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Fire near Asakuchi, Japan, 11 October 2026
What the satellites saw
Every pixel VIIRS returned inside 6 km of this fire: 1 in daylight, 0 on the night pass. A pixel is 375 m, so the squares are drawn at the size the measurement has.
Where
- Active fire
49 - Burned before
36 - Lightning first
none here - Near a road
49
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 04:04 UTC on 11 October 2026, 2 km SSE of Asakuchi in Okayama, Japan. At its most recent pass it was putting out 1 megawatts of radiative power across 1 separate satellite detections.
The detections sit inside a single kilometre of ground.
Around 1,242,650 people live within 25 km.
When the satellite first saw it
In local solar time the first detection falls at 12:58, which is the early afternoon. 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.
What this ground has done before
Our archive holds 5,335 days of burn history for every point on Earth, back to 2012-01-20. In that record this ground has not burned before.
Wind and weather
At the fire, wind was 6 km/h from the SE, carrying smoke and embers towards the NW. Temperature 26°C, relative humidity 55%.
Twelve hours on, the forecast has wind at 7 km/h from the N. 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 0.70. The score ranks where analysis is worth spending.
What the screen noticed: 11 distinct events in one space-time group; activity compressed 14x versus a week-long release; events spread over 14 km - too far apart to be one fire, close enough to share an actor.
Read from satellite detections and weather. No roads, no land cover, no ground visit.
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