Maytown Bushfire, QLD (2026) — Map & Containment

Maytown Bushfire — Sentinel-2 true color

Maytown 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

Drag to compare: normal photo on the left, heat brought out on the right.

Green: vegetationBrown: already burnedOrange: fire right nowSentinel-2 · Copernicus

The story so far

About 15 km west of Maytown.

Summary written on Sep 19, while the fire was still active. It has since ended — the figures above are current.

An active wildfire spanning 730 hectares (1,804 acres) near Maytown, Australia, has ignited intense heat signatures detected by satellites, reflecting the robust energy of the burning front as it continues to progress since starting on September 18, 2026. Monitoring systems have logged 32 thermal detections over a recent 48-hour window, illustrating the active reach and distribution of the fire across the local landscape.

This incident unfolds during a broader national landscape where 14,968,045 hectares have burned so far in 2026, tracking 57 percent below the country's two-decade average. While the broader region typically experiences its fire season from December to March, this current active fire near Maytown demonstrates localized activity ahead of those peak months.

In context

This wildfire burned in Australia for 1 day. In total it burned about 730 ha (1,804 acres) — around 7.3 km². That size is an estimate from satellite hotspots, not a measured area.

Close to the tropics, fires tend to follow the dry season and are often linked to land-clearing rather than a single summer peak.