Not a warning service. In an emergency call Triple Zero (000). For fires near you and official warnings use your state's fire map: NSW · VIC · QLD · SA · WA · TAS · NT · ACT.
NASA satellites detected 4,207 fire hotspots across Australia between Thu, 8 Oct, 3:17 pm AEDT and Sat, 10 Oct, 5:41 am AEDT, most in Northern Territory (2,306), Queensland (1,571), New South Wales (155). Each red dot on the map is a hotspot; the brown haze and drifting particles are today's bushfire smoke, on the forecast wind.
Fire hotspots by state
- Northern Territory2,306
- Queensland1,571
- New South Wales155
- Western Australia93
- Victoria35
- Tasmania29
- South Australia18
- ACT0
Bushfire smoke over Australian cities today
- Melbourne: No, little or no smoke (smoke AOD below 0.1); 11 hotspots within 100 km.
- Geelong: No, little or no smoke (smoke AOD below 0.1); 15 hotspots within 100 km.
- Ballarat: No, little or no smoke (smoke AOD below 0.1); 14 hotspots within 100 km.
- Bendigo: No, little or no smoke (smoke AOD below 0.1); 1 hotspot within 100 km.
- Sydney: No, little or no smoke (smoke AOD below 0.1); 24 hotspots within 100 km.
- Canberra: No, little or no smoke (smoke AOD below 0.1); 0 hotspots within 100 km.
- Adelaide: No, little or no smoke (smoke AOD below 0.1); 0 hotspots within 100 km.
- Brisbane: No, little or no smoke (smoke AOD below 0.1); 1 hotspot within 100 km.
- Gold Coast: No, little or no smoke (smoke AOD below 0.1); 2 hotspots within 100 km.
- Sunshine Coast: No, little or no smoke (smoke AOD below 0.1); 3 hotspots within 100 km.
Bushfire map questions
Where are the bushfires in Australia right now?
NASA's VIIRS satellite detected 4,207 fire hotspots across Australia between Thu, 8 Oct, 3:17 pm AEDT and Sat, 10 Oct, 5:41 am AEDT, most of them in Northern Territory (2,306), Queensland (1,571), New South Wales (155). Each red dot on the map is one detection. For fires near you, and for any warning, use your state's official map: Fires Near Me NSW (NSW Rural Fire Service), VicEmergency, Queensland Fire Department, SA Country Fire Service warnings, Emergency WA, Tasmania Fire Service, SecureNT, ACT Emergency Services Agency.
Is there bushfire smoke in Sydney today?
No, little or no bushfire smoke over Sydney today: the CAMS global model's fire-smoke aerosol optical depth there is below 0.1. Below 0.1 is clean air, 0.1 to 0.5 a smoke haze you can see and smell, 0.5 to 1 heavy smoke, above 1 very heavy smoke. Satellites saw 24 fire hotspots within 100 km in their latest passes.
Is there bushfire smoke in Melbourne today?
No, little or no bushfire smoke over Melbourne today: the CAMS global model's fire-smoke aerosol optical depth there is below 0.1. Below 0.1 is clean air, 0.1 to 0.5 a smoke haze you can see and smell, 0.5 to 1 heavy smoke, above 1 very heavy smoke. Satellites saw 11 fire hotspots within 100 km in their latest passes.
Is there bushfire smoke in Brisbane today?
No, little or no bushfire smoke over Brisbane today: the CAMS global model's fire-smoke aerosol optical depth there is below 0.1. Below 0.1 is clean air, 0.1 to 0.5 a smoke haze you can see and smell, 0.5 to 1 heavy smoke, above 1 very heavy smoke. Satellites saw 1 fire hotspot within 100 km in their latest passes.
Is there bushfire smoke in Canberra today?
No, little or no bushfire smoke over Canberra today: the CAMS global model's fire-smoke aerosol optical depth there is below 0.1. Below 0.1 is clean air, 0.1 to 0.5 a smoke haze you can see and smell, 0.5 to 1 heavy smoke, above 1 very heavy smoke. Satellites saw 0 fire hotspots within 100 km in their latest passes.
Is there bushfire smoke in Adelaide today?
No, little or no bushfire smoke over Adelaide today: the CAMS global model's fire-smoke aerosol optical depth there is below 0.1. Below 0.1 is clean air, 0.1 to 0.5 a smoke haze you can see and smell, 0.5 to 1 heavy smoke, above 1 very heavy smoke. Satellites saw 0 fire hotspots within 100 km in their latest passes.
Is the smoke from a bushfire or a hazard reduction burn?
Often a planned burn. Fire services run hazard reduction burns in cooler months, mostly in autumn and spring, and they make smoke that can settle over cities overnight and in the morning. A satellite hotspot cannot tell a bushfire from a planned burn, an industrial heat source or a farm burn-off. Your state's official fire map lists planned burns and going fires.
Why are there so many fires in northern Australia?
Northern Australia's savannas burn every dry season, roughly May to November. Many of these fires are lit on purpose early in the dry season, including traditional Aboriginal fire management and burns for carbon farming projects, to stop bigger fires later. Late in the dry season (September to November) fires are larger and hotter.
How up to date is this bushfire map?
The hotspots are NASA FIRMS detections from the VIIRS instrument on the Suomi NPP satellite (375 m pixels), which passes over Australia about twice a day; this page shows the detections from Thu, 8 Oct, 3:17 pm AEDT and Sat, 10 Oct, 5:41 am AEDT. A fire that started after the last pass is not on the map. The smoke is the Copernicus CAMS global forecast, drawn drifting on the ECMWF wind. It is rebuilt every day.
Official fire maps and warnings
- Fires Near Me NSW (NSW Rural Fire Service) (NSW)
- VicEmergency (VIC)
- Queensland Fire Department (QLD)
- SA Country Fire Service warnings (SA)
- Emergency WA (WA)
- Tasmania Fire Service (TAS)
- SecureNT (NT)
- ACT Emergency Services Agency (ACT)