Wildfires in Manawatū-Whanganui

New Zealand · region

Fire-weather risk today

Very low

tomorrow: Very low · steady

Fires in 2026

41 total since 2026

Area burned 2026

269 ha

from satellite perimeters

Air quality now

Good

EAQI 11· PM2.5 0.1 µg/m³ · includes wildfire smoke

How this page knows. New Zealand has no public real-time incident feed, so these fires are satellite detections (VIIRS, twice daily) clustered into incidents — not a fire service's log. A small fire between passes, or one under cloud, is not here. Each detection is filed under the nearest region centroid rather than a boundary test, so close to a border it can land on the neighbour's page. Fire-weather and air-quality figures are modelled at this same region (Manawatū-Whanganui).

Fires by year

First season on record — year-over-year comparisons appear as we accumulate history.

Fire history

Fire detections from NASA FIRMS (VIIRS), clustered into incidents by us. Region centroids are area-weighted from public boundary datasets; a fire is attributed to the nearest one. Fire-weather risk is our own estimate (Canadian FWI on Open-Meteo forecasts), not an official warning — for those see your national meteorological service and fire authority. In an emergency call 111.