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Wildfire near Newcastle Waters, Australia

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Map: Wildfire near Newcastle Waters, Australia

GDACS has tracked this wildfire near Newcastle Waters, Australia since October 15, 2026, 8 days as of its latest update on October 23. It carries a GREEN alert: limited humanitarian impact expected. Satellites put the burned area at 132,905 acres (53,785 hectares, 538 km²), roughly 9.1 times the size of Manhattan, or about 100,686 American football fields.

TypeWildfire
GDACS alertGreen
CountryAustralia
SinceOct 15, 2026
Tracked for8 days
Burned area53,785 ha · 132,903 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 15, 2026
When tracking began · October 15, 2026
Satellite picture, Latest · October 22, 2026
Latest · October 22, 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).

Did you know?

Dry lightning. Dry lightning comes from storms whose rain evaporates before it reaches the ground, so the lightning sparks fires with no rain to put them out.

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