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Wildfires near Sydney

On the New South Wales coast. · -33.870, 151.210

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

Active fires within 50 km

2within 50 km

6within 150 km

18 kmnearest detection

Fires across New South Wales · Australia

Active fire 6
Burned before 6
Lightning first ~~none here~~
Near a road 6

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 Sydney	Detections	First seen
16 MW	18 km NW	4	13:27 local solar
4 MW	34 km WNW	3	00:30 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 Sydney on which fire covered five or more separate square kilometres. By month:

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The busiest month in the record is September, with 12 of those days. Counting any burning at all gives 386 days and peaks in September: 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

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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.