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Wildfires near Melbourne

On Port Phillip Bay, in Victoria. · -37.810, 144.960

Updated 2026-10-11 10:28 UTC · VIIRS 375 m, about three hours behind the satellite

Active fires within 50 km

5within 50 km

14within 150 km

15 kmnearest detection

Fires across Victoria · Australia

Active fire 14
Burned before 9
Lightning first ~~none here~~
Near a road 14

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 Melbourne	Detections	First seen
24 MW	15 km W	5	13:21 local solar
1 MW	24 km ENE	1	14:06 local solar
0 MW	28 km ENE	1	00:44 local solar
0 MW	35 km ENE	1	01:03 local solar
4 MW	42 km E	3	00:09 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 29 days within 25 km of Melbourne on which fire covered five or more separate square kilometres. By month:

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The busiest month in the record is March, with 6 of those days. Counting any burning at all gives 2,205 days and peaks in October: 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

Bathing waternot surveyedSargassumnot this coastJellyfish—Algae—

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.

**Sea, sun and the water you swim in**For a destination: the fires near it, sea temperature at the coast rather than the town centre, the UV band, and the EU bathing-water classification.

**Every fire on Earth**Thermal anomalies from VIIRS at 375 m, three platforms, refreshed every hour and about three hours behind the overpass.

**Alerts that stay quiet**A fire must miss two passes before we say it stopped and grow by more than half again before we say it spread. Nothing is said twice.