Northern Territory fire map — current bushfires & incidents
Last updated
2 active fire incidents across Northern Territory — none currently at Watch and Act or above.
- Kakadu fire, NT — Advice
- Tablelands fire, NT — Advice
Official agency feeds, as at 18 October 2026 at 6:14 pm ACST. Planned burns excluded.
Track bushfires across Northern Territory in real time. Hipponics Firewatch plots current incidents and warnings from the NT Fire & Rescue Service and Bushfires NT alongside satellite hotspots, fire danger ratings and live conditions — covering Darwin, Palmerston, Katherine, Alice Springs, the Top End and Central Australia.
Open the live NT fire map →What the NT map shows
- Live fire incidents and official warnings (Advice, Watch and Act, Emergency Warning) from NTFRS / Bushfires NT
- Satellite hotspots from Himawari, MODIS and VIIRS — often the earliest sign of a new fire
- Fire Danger Ratings and atmospheric-stability (C-Haines) for Northern Territory
- Smoke, air quality, wind, lightning risk and road closures
- Watch zones that send a push notification when a fire approaches your home
About Northern Territory fire information
Official warnings for Northern Territory are issued by the NT Fire & Rescue Service and Bushfires NT. Hipponics Firewatch brings those feeds together with national satellite and weather data on one fast map, and lets you set a watch zone around the places you care about so you are alerted early. It is a situational-awareness tool, not a replacement for official warnings.
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