Rohan Fisher
@rohanfisher.bsky.social
North Aust NRM/fire scientist - supporting best practice land management. Landscape knowledge visualisation and sim innovation.
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Australia's fire season for 2025 is pretty much over. Discussing this on Landline today. It's surprising to me how surprising this concept is. The narrative around fire in this county fails to engage with the vast and complex distribution of fire across our continent.
November 17, 2025 at 1:38 AM
Australia's fire season for 2025 is pretty much over. Discussing this on Landline today. It's surprising to me how surprising this concept is. The narrative around fire in this county fails to engage with the vast and complex distribution of fire across our continent.
A brief but neat mention of Australia's peak fire season (October) on Land Line today. ABC pulled the fire spread video from this lnkd.in/gwbtsMBV site I set up to provide updated and dwnloadble animations of the fire season. Seeing stuff used and being useful is a great motivator to keep on.
November 9, 2025 at 5:34 AM
A brief but neat mention of Australia's peak fire season (October) on Land Line today. ABC pulled the fire spread video from this lnkd.in/gwbtsMBV site I set up to provide updated and dwnloadble animations of the fire season. Seeing stuff used and being useful is a great motivator to keep on.
..looking at the years' fire season for the Pilbara Ranger forum, and came across this just south of Roebourne. The 1st sat image from 27th Oct - 2nd the 30th, a beautiful example of how fire follows fuel and fuel follows water...but both 💧and 🔥need to flow through this country to keep it healthy.
November 4, 2025 at 6:46 AM
..looking at the years' fire season for the Pilbara Ranger forum, and came across this just south of Roebourne. The 1st sat image from 27th Oct - 2nd the 30th, a beautiful example of how fire follows fuel and fuel follows water...but both 💧and 🔥need to flow through this country to keep it healthy.
2025 another big fire year in the NT. 25 millions ha burnt so far. 7.4 million of them burned over the past few weeks. Full reports available at nafi-bam-data-map.lkvl.net
October 28, 2025 at 8:50 AM
2025 another big fire year in the NT. 25 millions ha burnt so far. 7.4 million of them burned over the past few weeks. Full reports available at nafi-bam-data-map.lkvl.net
I have been developing techniques for the automated assessment of fire events across Australia using NAFI (firenorth.org.au) data. These are the top 10 largest across Australia so far this year. 3 of them are > 1 million hectares (Terra-Fires, 100x mega fire). The year is not over.
October 26, 2025 at 11:47 PM
I have been developing techniques for the automated assessment of fire events across Australia using NAFI (firenorth.org.au) data. These are the top 10 largest across Australia so far this year. 3 of them are > 1 million hectares (Terra-Fires, 100x mega fire). The year is not over.
Dozens of lightning strike fires across Australia's Western Deserts ATM. Sat images from a couple of days ago. Beautiful, complex and, at times, scary.
October 21, 2025 at 11:32 PM
Dozens of lightning strike fires across Australia's Western Deserts ATM. Sat images from a couple of days ago. Beautiful, complex and, at times, scary.
Massive fires east of Tennant Creek at the moment. This S2 image captured yesterday, fascinating to see how this blaze is creating its own weather on a couple of its fronts. This 🔥 has moved over 100km over the last few days. This time of year, so hot and dry and lightning-rich storms are abundant
October 15, 2025 at 9:30 AM
Massive fires east of Tennant Creek at the moment. This S2 image captured yesterday, fascinating to see how this blaze is creating its own weather on a couple of its fronts. This 🔥 has moved over 100km over the last few days. This time of year, so hot and dry and lightning-rich storms are abundant
2025 fire year-to-date. NOW is peak fire season for this continent. Some big fires over the last couple of weeks! View and download these animations here: animation.landscapeknowledge.net
October 13, 2025 at 1:08 AM
2025 fire year-to-date. NOW is peak fire season for this continent. Some big fires over the last couple of weeks! View and download these animations here: animation.landscapeknowledge.net
Good turnout this arvo... Darwin N.T.
October 12, 2025 at 8:04 AM
Good turnout this arvo... Darwin N.T.
NEW NAFI YEAR TO DATE QUICK REPORTING SITE.
Launching today, a new site that pulls in the NAFI burnt area mapping across 80% of Australia and provides a summary of what's going on in your patch.
ACCESS is here nafi-bam-data-map.lkvl.net
Launching today, a new site that pulls in the NAFI burnt area mapping across 80% of Australia and provides a summary of what's going on in your patch.
ACCESS is here nafi-bam-data-map.lkvl.net
October 9, 2025 at 7:20 AM
NEW NAFI YEAR TO DATE QUICK REPORTING SITE.
Launching today, a new site that pulls in the NAFI burnt area mapping across 80% of Australia and provides a summary of what's going on in your patch.
ACCESS is here nafi-bam-data-map.lkvl.net
Launching today, a new site that pulls in the NAFI burnt area mapping across 80% of Australia and provides a summary of what's going on in your patch.
ACCESS is here nafi-bam-data-map.lkvl.net
Dry lightning storms ripped through the Great Sandy, Gibson, and Tanami deserts a few days ago. Constrained by low fuel and previous burns, these desert fires are mostly small and really quite beautiful. Sentinel 2 imagery from Sunday.
October 7, 2025 at 7:21 AM
Dry lightning storms ripped through the Great Sandy, Gibson, and Tanami deserts a few days ago. Constrained by low fuel and previous burns, these desert fires are mostly small and really quite beautiful. Sentinel 2 imagery from Sunday.
750,000ha burnt across the NT over the last 5 days! This clip from yesterday - from the excellent Zoom Earth app. Mostly remote lightning strike fires. These fires can not be fought, these ignitions can't be controlled.
October 6, 2025 at 4:27 AM
750,000ha burnt across the NT over the last 5 days! This clip from yesterday - from the excellent Zoom Earth app. Mostly remote lightning strike fires. These fires can not be fought, these ignitions can't be controlled.
A shit-ton of lightning strikes through remote Tanami and Great Sandy deserts resulting in a similarly shit-ton of ignitions. Will be keeping a close eye on them over the coming days.
October 4, 2025 at 5:25 AM
A shit-ton of lightning strikes through remote Tanami and Great Sandy deserts resulting in a similarly shit-ton of ignitions. Will be keeping a close eye on them over the coming days.
With potentially massive fires sparking up in the Central NT and WA deserts over the last few days I chucked this video together showing how to monitor their spread and asses their tradgectory using the North Australian Fire Information NAFI mobile app. Available on both Android and Apple
October 4, 2025 at 12:04 AM
With potentially massive fires sparking up in the Central NT and WA deserts over the last few days I chucked this video together showing how to monitor their spread and asses their tradgectory using the North Australian Fire Information NAFI mobile app. Available on both Android and Apple
Yolgnu Power exhibition is a ripper. So so much power! NT art power house of the nation! Go see it if you get the chance. NSW art gallery...
October 1, 2025 at 7:11 AM
Yolgnu Power exhibition is a ripper. So so much power! NT art power house of the nation! Go see it if you get the chance. NSW art gallery...
I had great fun yapping away about fire and complexity with Rick Hind yesterday on ABC radio Darwin. 1:21 in . A long sprawling chat, kept thinking we were done before getting another question. www.abc.net.au/listen/progr...
September 24, 2025 at 12:46 PM
I had great fun yapping away about fire and complexity with Rick Hind yesterday on ABC radio Darwin. 1:21 in . A long sprawling chat, kept thinking we were done before getting another question. www.abc.net.au/listen/progr...
On the Tiwi Islands this week, working with the Tiwi Junior Ranger program, delivering 3D tactile 🔥education models to Tiwi students. The models engage the kids - provide a platform for Tiwi to discuss their sophisticated work on country. The next generation thinking about fire and land management.
September 18, 2025 at 5:21 AM
On the Tiwi Islands this week, working with the Tiwi Junior Ranger program, delivering 3D tactile 🔥education models to Tiwi students. The models engage the kids - provide a platform for Tiwi to discuss their sophisticated work on country. The next generation thinking about fire and land management.
Absolutely massive fire racing through country S.E. of Broome at the moment. This (s2)image captured yesterday..visible are attempts to buffer burn ahead of the front. Latest data suggest it has jumped containment and is continuing to rip south-west. Follow it in real time on www.firenorth.org.au
September 15, 2025 at 8:44 AM
Absolutely massive fire racing through country S.E. of Broome at the moment. This (s2)image captured yesterday..visible are attempts to buffer burn ahead of the front. Latest data suggest it has jumped containment and is continuing to rip south-west. Follow it in real time on www.firenorth.org.au
NAFI burn animation site now updated to all fires through to September. View and download mp4 videos of fire spread from NAFI maps for 31 regions across Australia. A great teaching and fire behavior analysis tool. ACCESS THE SITE HERE:
Inkd.in/gwbtsMBV
Inkd.in/gwbtsMBV
September 2, 2025 at 9:43 PM
NAFI burn animation site now updated to all fires through to September. View and download mp4 videos of fire spread from NAFI maps for 31 regions across Australia. A great teaching and fire behavior analysis tool. ACCESS THE SITE HERE:
Inkd.in/gwbtsMBV
Inkd.in/gwbtsMBV
Judbarra-Gregory NP, east Kimberley, NT, burn animation over August. 612,916ha 🔥 so far this year, most of that over the last couple of weeks. This 🔥is showing no sign of slowing down in this magnificent but very remote national park. 4th largest national Park in Australia. getting little attention
September 1, 2025 at 7:51 AM
Judbarra-Gregory NP, east Kimberley, NT, burn animation over August. 612,916ha 🔥 so far this year, most of that over the last couple of weeks. This 🔥is showing no sign of slowing down in this magnificent but very remote national park. 4th largest national Park in Australia. getting little attention
Judbarra/Gregory National Park NT is toast. The fourth-largest national park in Australia (12,882km2) has a massive fire racing through right now. The northern half is already burnt, looks like it will sweep through the rest over the next few days. Sent2 image from yesterday - Fire front 70kms E-W.
August 26, 2025 at 10:43 PM
Judbarra/Gregory National Park NT is toast. The fourth-largest national park in Australia (12,882km2) has a massive fire racing through right now. The northern half is already burnt, looks like it will sweep through the rest over the next few days. Sent2 image from yesterday - Fire front 70kms E-W.
Kakadu flood plain. Beautiful, clear dry season morning, this morning.
August 25, 2025 at 12:19 PM
Kakadu flood plain. Beautiful, clear dry season morning, this morning.
In Maningrida today delivering 3D projection augmented model + setup training for Maningrida school. The model features video's of old people talking about coast and sea country. The model provides the stories from country back to the community. The model will live the Lùrra Language center.
August 22, 2025 at 5:58 AM
In Maningrida today delivering 3D projection augmented model + setup training for Maningrida school. The model features video's of old people talking about coast and sea country. The model provides the stories from country back to the community. The model will live the Lùrra Language center.
In case anyone asks:
2.1 million ha of wildfire so far in August
267,200 ha burnt in the NT over the last 3 days
570,000 ha burnt across North Aust over the last 5 days
Total area burnt in Spain so far this year 343,000ha.
2.1 million ha of wildfire so far in August
267,200 ha burnt in the NT over the last 3 days
570,000 ha burnt across North Aust over the last 5 days
Total area burnt in Spain so far this year 343,000ha.
August 20, 2025 at 4:10 AM
In case anyone asks:
2.1 million ha of wildfire so far in August
267,200 ha burnt in the NT over the last 3 days
570,000 ha burnt across North Aust over the last 5 days
Total area burnt in Spain so far this year 343,000ha.
2.1 million ha of wildfire so far in August
267,200 ha burnt in the NT over the last 3 days
570,000 ha burnt across North Aust over the last 5 days
Total area burnt in Spain so far this year 343,000ha.