Wildfires in Taranaki
New Zealand · region
Fire-weather risk today
Very low
tomorrow: Very low · steady
Fires in 2026
6
6 total since 2026
Area burned 2026
40.0 ha
from satellite perimeters
Air quality now
Good
EAQI 14· PM2.5 3.6 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 (Taranaki).
Fires by year
First season on record — year-over-year comparisons appear as we accumulate history.
Fire history
20/09/2026 · Nova Zelândia › 18/09/2026 · Nova Zelândia › 13/09/2026 · Nova Zelândia › 05/09/2026 · Nova Zelândia › 30/08/2026 · Nova Zelândia › 06/08/2026 · Nova Zelândia ›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.