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Cumboogle Bushfire

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Cumboogle Bushfire — Sentinel-2 true color Cumboogle Bushfire — Sentinel-2 SWIR (fuego) True view Fire view
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True view (left): as the eye sees it.
Fire view (right): infrared (SWIR), sees through smoke and brings out the heat.

🟢 green = vegetation
🟤 brown = already burned
🟠 orange = fire right now

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Key facts

Source: NSW Rural Fire Service
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The story so far

A wildfire is currently active near Cumboogle, Australia, managed by the Rural Fire Service.

This fire occurs during the region's typical fire season, which runs from December to March.

Nationwide, 19,515,591 hectares have burned so far in 2026, a figure that is 44% below the two-decade average.

The bigger picture in Australia

Across Australia, roughly 19,686,136 hectares have burned so far in 2026 — 43% below the two-decade average. Data from Copernicus GWIS.

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