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Fire near Mgandu, Tanzania, 10 October 2026
What the satellites saw
Every pixel VIIRS returned inside 6 km of this fire: 2 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
1992 - Burned before
1989 - 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 10:56 UTC on 10 October 2026, 88 km S of Mgandu in Singida, Tanzania. At its most recent pass it was putting out 11 megawatts of radiative power across 2 separate satellite detections.
The detections sit inside a single kilometre 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 13:13, 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
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 54 days, most recently on 2026-10-09.
Wind and weather
At the fire, wind was 21 km/h from the E, carrying smoke and embers towards the W. Temperature 31°C, relative humidity 29%.
Twelve hours on, the forecast has wind at 17 km/h from the E. 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: 22 distinct events in one space-time group; activity compressed 13x versus a week-long release; events spread over 29 km - too far apart to be one fire, close enough to share an actor; 10 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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