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Wildfire near Yarravel

Ended · 530 hectares (1,310 acres) · Started · Updated

This fire in numbers3 days
530Hectares1,310Acres3Days it lasted

Started on Sep 5, 2026.

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3Active1,302Hotspots 48h960Hectares
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Red dots: heat detected by satellite in the last 48h. NASA FIRMS

Quick facts

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Rural Fire Service

A moderate heat signature is currently being picked up by satellites over the active wildfire near Yarravel, Australia, where the Rural Fire Service is responding to the incident that started on September 5, 2026. Having burned 530 hectares, or 1,310 acres, the blaze is generating 55 heat detections in the surrounding area over a 48-hour period.

While this incident develops, the broader national landscape shows 14,055,118 hectares burned so far in 2026, marking a figure 60% below the two-decade average. This activity occurs outside of the region's typical fire season, which usually runs from December to March.

In context

This wildfire burned in Australia for 2 days. In total it burned about 530 ha (1,310 acres) — around 5.3 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 17,369,357 hectares have burned so far in 2026 — 50% below the two-decade average. Data from Copernicus GWIS.

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