ContainedUpdated · Source: NSW Rural Fire Service

Tharbogang Bushfire (undated)

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Tharbogang Bushfire (undated) — Sentinel-2 true color Tharbogang Bushfire (undated) — 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
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The story so far

The Rural Fire Service has successfully contained a wildfire near Tharbogang in Australia, an area where the typical fire season runs from December to March.

Across the country, the wider landscape has seen 20,025,462 hectares burned so far in 2026, a total that tracks 42 percent below the two-decade average for the same period.

The bigger picture in Australia

Across Australia, roughly 20,025,462 hectares have burned so far in 2026 — 42% below the two-decade average. Data from Copernicus GWIS.

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