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Fire near Daru, Papua New Guinea, 10 October 2026
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What the satellites saw
Every pixel VIIRS returned inside 24 km of this fire: 208 in daylight, 2 on the night pass. A pixel is 375 m, so the squares are drawn at the size the measurement has.
Where
- Active fire
1131 - Burned before
974 - Lightning first
none here - Near a road
427
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 15:58 UTC on 10 October 2026, 77 km W of Daru in Western Province, Papua New Guinea. At its most recent pass it was putting out 1,952 megawatts of radiative power across 149 separate satellite detections.
The detections span about 19.8 km of ground.
No settlement in our index has population recorded within 25 km.
When the satellite first saw it
In local solar time the first detection falls at 01:28, 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.
It was seen across 12.6 hours of satellite passes.
1% 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 2013, 2014, 2015, 2018, 2026, across 16 days, most recently on 2026-09-11.
Wind and weather
At the fire, wind was 10 km/h from the E, carrying smoke and embers towards the W. Temperature 23°C, relative humidity 88%.
Twelve hours on, the forecast has wind at 17 km/h from the ESE. These are model figures at roughly 10 km resolution, not a reading taken at the fire.
How it compares
By radiative power this is the 90th largest fire burning anywhere on Earth in the current window.
Where analysis would go
This fire is below the threshold at which the screening pass records a score.
Read from satellite detections and weather. No roads, no land cover, no ground visit.
What else this page knows
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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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