Right now

The most recent data we hold from NASA FIRMS (VIIRS) arrived 33 minutes ago, and this point is not in it. We record detections, not passes: an absence is not proof that nothing is there.

5 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 41 earlier days since 10 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.

185 satellite detections of this fire · 30 August – 27 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 Alexandria
27 Oct 10:47	93 MW	19 km
27 Oct 00:13	75 MW	20 km
27 Oct 00:13	57 MW	21 km
26 Oct 23:31	45 MW	22 km
26 Oct 11:08	92 MW	19 km
26 Oct 11:08	126 MW	19 km
26 Oct 11:08	68 MW	20 km
26 Oct 00:35	88 MW	19 km
26 Oct 00:35	117 MW	20 km
25 Oct 23:50	109 MW	19 km
25 Oct 22:52	82 MW	19 km
25 Oct 11:25	126 MW	23 km
25 Oct 00:07	110 MW	23 km
24 Oct 23:12	92 MW	23 km
24 Oct 10:47	112 MW	20 km
24 Oct 00:28	96 MW	21 km
23 Oct 23:31	58 MW	15 km
23 Oct 11:08	116 MW	21 km
23 Oct 00:45	94 MW	23 km
22 Oct 23:50	82 MW	22 km
22 Oct 23:05	48 MW	23 km
22 Oct 11:25	92 MW	21 km
22 Oct 00:07	83 MW	22 km
21 Oct 11:02	115 MW	16 km
21 Oct 10:04	100 MW	16 km
21 Oct 00:28	73 MW	14 km
20 Oct 23:44	65 MW	14 km
20 Oct 22:46	41 MW	13 km
20 Oct 11:19	40 MW	13 km
20 Oct 11:19	91 MW	17 km

and 155 earlier detections

Recorded by satellite 24 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 58th strongest of the 209 detections recorded within 20 km of this point since 9 March 2026. The last comparable one was on 2 October 2026. 70 more were recorded here in the fortnight before it.

What the source measured

NASA FIRMS (VIIRS) reported 30 fire pixels with a combined fire radiative power of 57 MW, at nominal confidence, 15 km from Alexandria.

The 30 pixels cover about 4.2 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.

Urban PEI: 2,999,846 within a heuristic 35 km radius; not unique people.

How we know

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

Our own score for this event is 48 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.

Archived as “Critical” under the rule in force until 4 October 2026, which read the radiative power and the people nearby. A satellite sees heat, not an emergency: since then every detection is shown as low or medium; this one as “Low”.

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	Low
Calamity Score (ours)	48 / 100
Legacy data-support index	0.74/1
Coordinates	31.0995, 29.8114
Nearest city	Alexandria (15 km)
Urban exposure index (PEI)	3.0M within 35 km
Impact tier	severe
Timestamp	2026-10-03T00:20:00.000Z
Source	https://firms.modaps.eosdis.nasa.gov/map/#d:24hrs;@29.811,31.100,9z
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: 2026-10-03T00:20:00.000Z.

First archived: 2026-06-20T13:01:04.261Z. Material modification: 2026-10-27T13:01:15.405Z.

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	337.23
Frp	57.38
PixelCount	30
Confidence	nominal

Persistent heat source near Alexandria, Egypt