ContainedUpdated · Source: NSW Rural Fire Service

Mallan Bushfire

Size
112 hectares
277 acres
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Mallan Bushfire — Sentinel-2 true color Mallan 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 15 km east of Mallan.

Contained by the Rural Fire Service, the 112-hectare (277-acre) wildfire near Mallan, Australia, currently sits alongside a broader national fire landscape where 19,515,591 hectares have burned so far in 2026, marking a figure 44% below the two-decade average.

Satellites registered 3 heat detections near the incident over the preceding 48 hours, highlighting the localized extent of the fire footprint as crews managed the response during the region's typical fire season, which runs from December to March.

In context

This wildfire is currently contained in Australia. So far it has affected roughly 112 ha (277 acres) — about 1.1 km².

In the Southern Hemisphere the season runs the other way, peaking roughly from November through March.

The bigger picture in Australia

Across Australia, roughly 19,515,591 hectares have burned so far in 2026 — 44% below the two-decade average. Data from Copernicus GWIS.

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