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Wildfire near Georgetown, Australia

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Map: Wildfire near Georgetown, Australia

GDACS has tracked this wildfire near Georgetown, Australia since October 8, 2026, 11 days as of its latest update on October 19. It carries a GREEN alert: limited humanitarian impact expected. Satellites put the burned area at 215,844 acres (87,349 hectares, 873 km²), roughly 15 times the size of Manhattan, or about 163,518 American football fields.

TypeWildfire
GDACS alertGreen
CountryAustralia
SinceOct 8, 2026
Tracked for11 days
Burned area87,349 ha · 215,839 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 · October 8, 2026
When tracking began · October 8, 2026
Satellite picture, Latest · October 19, 2026
Latest · October 19, 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.

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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