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Fire near Roebuck, Australia, 14 November 2026
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What the satellites saw
Every pixel VIIRS returned inside 23 km of this fire: 209 in daylight, 15 on the night pass. A pixel is 375 m, so the squares are drawn at the size the measurement has.
Where
- Active fire
60 - Burned before
58 - 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 16:45 UTC on 14 November 2026, 103 km SSW of Roebuck in Western Australia, Australia. At its most recent pass it was putting out 13,385 megawatts of radiative power across 239 separate satellite detections.
The detections span about 19.4 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 00:54, 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 13.5 hours of satellite passes.
10% 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 2014, 2015, 2017, 2023, across 6 days, most recently on 2023-10-15.
Wind and weather
At the fire, wind was 16 km/h from the WSW, carrying smoke and embers towards the ENE. Temperature 29°C, relative humidity 58%.
Twelve hours on, the forecast has wind at 14 km/h from the SW. 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 1st 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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