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Wildfire near Halls Creek, Australia

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Map: Wildfire near Halls Creek, Australia

GDACS has tracked this wildfire near Halls Creek, Australia since October 23, 2026, 3 days as of its latest update on October 26. It carries a GREEN alert: limited humanitarian impact expected. Satellites put the burned area at 94,130 acres (38,093 hectares, 381 km²), roughly 6.4 times the size of Manhattan, or about 71,310 American football fields.

TypeWildfire
GDACS alertGreen
CountryAustralia
SinceOct 23, 2026
Tracked for3 days
Burned area38,093 ha · 94,130 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 23, 2026
When tracking began · October 23, 2026
Satellite picture, Latest · October 25, 2026
Latest · October 25, 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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