Right now

The most recent data we hold from NASA FIRMS (VIIRS) arrived 1 minute ago, and this point is not in it. We record detections, not passes: an absence is not proof that nothing is there.

6 other detections within 20 km in the last 24 hours, the nearest <1 km from here.

The satellite has seen heat at this spot on 49 earlier days since 15 March 2026, in 7 of the twelve months of the year. Heat that is there in every season usually comes from industry (a steelworks, a refinery flare, a gas field) or from routine burning, not from a wildfire. NASA's data do not say which.

95 satellite detections of this fire · 29 September – 19 October 2026

A satellite sees a burning fire on each of its passes. This page gathers every detection of this fire; the address of each one leads here.

Day and time (UTC)	Radiative power	Distance from the town
19 Oct 12:21	404 MW	343 km
19 Oct 11:38	375 MW	344 km
19 Oct 10:43	342 MW	344 km
19 Oct 01:05	273 MW	344 km
19 Oct 00:22	233 MW	344 km
18 Oct 23:26	197 MW	344 km
18 Oct 11:55	418 MW	344 km
18 Oct 11:00	373 MW	344 km
18 Oct 00:41	332 MW	344 km
17 Oct 23:44	150 MW	345 km
17 Oct 12:17	454 MW	343 km
17 Oct 12:17	226 MW	344 km
17 Oct 11:19	387 MW	343 km
17 Oct 01:00	289 MW	343 km
17 Oct 01:00	344 MW	343 km
16 Oct 23:20	228 MW	343 km
16 Oct 12:34	183 MW	344 km
16 Oct 12:34	368 MW	345 km
16 Oct 11:38	338 MW	345 km
16 Oct 10:53	302 MW	345 km
16 Oct 01:17	275 MW	346 km
16 Oct 01:17	225 MW	346 km
15 Oct 23:37	161 MW	348 km
15 Oct 11:55	276 MW	346 km
15 Oct 11:55	233 MW	347 km
15 Oct 11:55	117 MW	350 km
15 Oct 00:41	166 MW	347 km
14 Oct 23:58	112 MW	346 km
14 Oct 11:32	117 MW	347 km
14 Oct 10:36	93 MW	347 km

and 65 earlier detections

Recorded by satellite 13 days ago.

A thermal anomaly is a snapshot of one satellite pass, not a record of a fire’s life: we cannot say whether it kept burning after that pass.

It is the 3rd strongest of the 192 detections recorded within 20 km of this point since 9 March 2026. Another comparable one was recorded here earlier the same day. 70 more were recorded here in the fortnight before it.

What the source measured

NASA FIRMS (VIIRS) reported 80 fire pixels with a combined fire radiative power of 398 MW, at high confidence, 344 km from Sīwah.

The 80 pixels cover about 11.2 km² — that is the footprint of the detection grid at 375 m resolution, not an estimate of how much land burned.

FIRMS does not report burned area, and neither do we.

How we know

One source: NASA FIRMS (VIIRS). Not yet confirmed by a second, independent source.

Our own score for this event is 27 out of 100.

This is our versioned heuristic index, not source severity or a calibrated probability. Urban PEI does not count unique people.

Computed under scoring rules v5. Rows carrying other versions were judged by different rules and are not directly comparable.

Series begins 8 March 2026. Comparisons refer to that period only. Collection gap: 14-26 August 2026.

This data is aggregated algorithmically from scientific sources. Not a replacement for official emergency warnings.

Event data

Type	Persistent heat source
Severity	Medium
Calamity Score (ours)	27 / 100
Legacy data-support index	0.54/1
Coordinates	27.7269, 22.4263
Nearest city	Sīwah (344 km)
Urban exposure index (PEI)	0 within 50 km
Impact tier	minor
Timestamp	2026-10-06T11:25:00.000Z
Source	https://firms.modaps.eosdis.nasa.gov/map/#d:24hrs;@22.426,27.727,9z
Licence	US public domain (NASA) · NASA FIRMS (LANCE)

Physical priority index · v5. Heuristic priority, not calibrated probability, predictive accuracy or damage. The legacy data-support index combines assigned source support and field availability. Urban PEI is distance-weighted and does not count unique people; zero does not establish that nobody is present. Model cards.

Source and revision timeline

Source: firms. Occurrence: 2026-10-06T11:25:00.000Z.

First archived: 2026-06-14T23:58:32.621Z. Material modification: 2026-10-19T14:04:18.814Z.

Retained revisions are prospective; earlier versions may be unavailable. No revision entry does not prove that a record never changed.

Safety information

Heat shows up at this spot regularly, which usually means an industrial plant or routine burning rather than a wildfire. Nothing on this page is an alert. In a real emergency, follow local authorities.

In the news nearby

A list of links found by GDELT for this place and this hazard in the last seven days. External, not ours: we have not read them and do not vouch for them.

No news is listed: GDELT was not available when this page was rendered.

GDELT Project · gdeltproject.org

Brightness	367
Frp	398.13
PixelCount	80
Confidence	high

Persistent heat source 344 km from Sīwah, Egypt