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Wildfires near Big Sur
Updated 2026-10-12 09:24 UTC · VIIRS 375 m, about three hours behind the satellite
Rings at 50 and 150 km — the same two the counts above use. The blue mark is the coastal point every sea reading on this page is taken at. The rose is the 72-hour mean wind, pointing the way the air is going. Each layer above is its own address, so a view can be shared. Coastline from Natural Earth at 110 m — regional context, not a survey.
Right now
| Power | From Big Sur | Detections | First seen |
| 3 MW | 47 km N | 2 | 12:50 local solar |
VIIRS 375 m · nearest first; linked entries have a page
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When this ground actually burns
Across the last 10 years our archive records 41 days within 25 km of Big Sur on which fire covered five or more separate square kilometres. By month:
The busiest month in the record is August, with 34 of those days. Counting any burning at all gives 80 days and peaks in August: outside summer most Mediterranean detections are agricultural, so that series measures farming rather than fire risk.
375 m heat signatures, about three hours behind the satellite, two passes a day. For evacuation, follow local emergency services.
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Conditions
Forecast peak for 2026-10-12. WHO band Moderate.
Open-Meteo, daily maximum
Surface temperature for 2026-10-12, sampled 4 km offshore.
Open-Meteo marine model
Vector mean of the last 72 hours: from the NW at 13 km/h, pushing surface water onto northwest-facing shores.
At the coastal point stored for this destination, which lies 270° from the centre, that is a slack component of +7.3 km/h, onshore in 90% of those hours.
Open-Meteo hourly wind at 10 m · 0 h old
How this page is put together
Every figure above comes from one of these, and every one of them is redrawn from the live feed each hour.
