ContainedUpdated · Source: NSW Rural Fire Service

Eenaweena Bushfire

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Eenaweena Bushfire — Sentinel-2 true color Eenaweena 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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Green: vegetationBrown: already burnedOrange: fire right nowSentinel-2 · Copernicus

Key facts

Source: NSW Rural Fire Service
JurisdictionRural Fire Service

The story so far

About 20 km southeast of Eenaweena.

Near Eenaweena, Australia, a wildfire monitored by the Rural Fire Service has successfully been brought to a contained status. Although the blaze is contained rather than spreading, satellite observations over the past forty-eight hours have still registered three heat detections in the surrounding area.

This incident unfolds during the region's typical fire season, which runs annually from December to March. Across the broader country, wildfire activity this year has reached 21,163,141 hectares burned so far in 2026, tracking 39% below the two-decade average.

The bigger picture in Australia

Across Australia, roughly 21,163,141 hectares have burned so far in 2026 — 39% below the two-decade average. Data from Copernicus GWIS.

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