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Fire near Tennant Creek, Australia, 15 November 2026
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What the satellites saw
Every pixel VIIRS returned inside 9 km of this fire: 72 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
34 - Burned before
14 - Lightning first
none here - Near a road
22
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 03:34 UTC on 15 November 2026, 303 km SE of Tennant Creek in Northern Territory, Australia. At its most recent pass it was putting out 3,816 megawatts of radiative power across 72 separate satellite detections.
The detections span about 5.0 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 12:40, 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 1.7 hours of satellite passes.
What this ground has done before
This ground has burned before. Our archive records fire here in 2019, across 1 day, most recently on 2019-01-03.
Wind and weather
At the fire, wind was 22 km/h from the SE, carrying smoke and embers towards the NW. Temperature 36°C, relative humidity 23%.
Twelve hours on, the forecast has wind at 28 km/h from the SE. 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 7th largest fire burning anywhere on Earth in the current window.
Where analysis would go
Our screening pass scores this fire 0.10. The score ranks where analysis is worth spending.
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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