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Wildfires near Byron Bay
Updated 2026-10-12 12:30 UTC · VIIRS 375 m, about three hours behind the satellite
- Active fire
11 - Burned before
10 - Lightning first
none here - Near a road
10
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 Byron Bay | Detections | First seen |
| 3 MW | 39 km W | 1 | 13:38 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 9 days within 25 km of Byron Bay on which fire covered five or more separate square kilometres. By month:
The busiest month in the record is November, with 6 of those days. Counting any burning at all gives 379 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 Very high.
Open-Meteo, daily maximum
Surface temperature for 2026-10-12, sampled 13 km offshore.
Open-Meteo marine model
Vector mean of the last 72 hours: from the N at 17 km/h, pushing surface water onto north-facing shores.
At the coastal point stored for this destination, which lies 90° from the centre, that is a slack component of +1.2 km/h, onshore in 56% 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.
