December 2006 Victorian bushfire images

  • Images have been downsampled and compressed to reduce download size to less than 1MB
  • Image times at in UTC (local AEDT time is UTC +11 hours)
  • Due to variations in satellite orbits, the images may only cover parts of the areas of interest
  • Hotspot analysis can only be performed on areas within the satellite pass with little cloud cover

Red dots on the image indicate current fire activity (within the last 12 hours)
Yellow dots indicate fire locations between 12 and 24 hours ago
Blue dots indicate fire locations between 24 and 36 hours ago

2006-12-21 0044 UTC (21st Dec 11:44am) fire intensity increases to the southeast

2006-12-20 0415 UTC (20th Dec 3:15pm) smoke over Melbourne

2006-12-20 0001 UTC (20th Dec 11:01am) smoke over Melbourne

2006-12-18 0428 UTC (18th Dec 3:28pm) firefronts join, smoke travels east

2006-12-17 0345 UTC (17th Dec 2:45pm) smoke travels southeast

2006-12-14 0038 UTC (14th Dec 11:38am) smoke swirling over water to southeast

2006-12-12 0050 UTC (12th Dec 11:50am) smoke plume blown northwest