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Fire near Kondoa, Tanzania, 11 October 2026
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What the satellites saw
Every pixel VIIRS returned inside 12 km of this fire: 41 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
932 - Burned before
915 - Lightning first
none here - Near a road
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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 10:38 UTC on 11 October 2026, 24 km E of Kondoa in Dodoma, Tanzania. At its most recent pass it was putting out 1,694 megawatts of radiative power across 39 separate satellite detections.
The detections span about 7.5 km of ground.
Around 80,443 people live within 25 km.
When the satellite first saw it
In local solar time the first detection falls at 13:02, 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.
It was seen across 1.3 hours of satellite passes.
What this ground has done before
This ground has burned before. Our archive records fire here in 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023, 2024, 2025, 2026, across 93 days, most recently on 2026-10-08.
Wind and weather
At the fire, wind was 24 km/h from the E, carrying smoke and embers towards the W. Temperature 31°C, relative humidity 31%.
Twelve hours on, the forecast has wind at 24 km/h from the E. 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 75th 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.
Written from our own measurements; composed. Open this fire on the live map.