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Wildfire near Katherine, Australia

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GDACS has tracked this wildfire near Katherine, Australia since September 29, 2026, 15 days as of its latest update on October 14. It carries a GREEN alert: limited humanitarian impact expected. Satellites put the burned area at 110,194 acres (44,594 hectares, 446 km²), roughly 7.5 times the size of Manhattan, or about 83,480 American football fields.

TypeWildfire
GDACS alertGreen
CountryAustralia
SinceSep 29, 2026
Tracked for15 days
Burned area44,594 ha · 110,192 acres
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How the size is measured

GDACS estimates burned areas from satellite data, so the figures cover the whole fire complex and may include several fires burning close together.

Seen from space

Satellite picture, When tracking began · September 29, 2026
When tracking began · September 29, 2026
Satellite picture, Latest · October 14, 2026
Latest · October 14, 2026

True color from the VIIRS instrument on the NOAA-20 satellite. Red dots are fires detected by their heat; smoke shows as gray-brown haze. The ring marks where the event was reported. Pictures: NASA Worldview (GIBS) from the daily satellite passes; clouds can hide the ground on some days.

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GDACS report. Source: GDACS, the Global Disaster Alert and Coordination System of the United Nations and the European Commission (CC BY 4.0).

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