Entity

Wildfire

Uncontrolled fire across vegetated land; a recurring hazard tracked for its economic, insurance, and climate impact.

As of 16 Oct 2026Last evidence 15 Oct 2026

What is happening now

  • Hot weather and winds raise California wildfire threat as power shutoffs start

    Reported claim · first reported 15 Oct 2026 · 1 claim · best-carried claim: 1 separate publisher

  • Singapore pollution spikes, East Timor shuts schools as Indonesia wildfire haze intensifies

    Reported claim · first reported 14 Oct 2026 · 1 claim · best-carried claim: 3 separate publishers

  • Prabowo thanks personnel battling wildfires across Indonesia

    Reported claim · first reported 13 Oct 2026 · 1 claim · best-carried claim: 1 separate publisher

All 3 events and claims involving Wildfire

What changed

  • Attention Rising: 79 mentions on 16 Oct 2026, against 56 on 25 Sept 2026 (+41%).
  • State Last recorded change: coverage state went from fading to rising on 16 Oct 2026 (1 change recorded since 7 Oct 2026).
  • Claims 1 claim first reported since 15 Oct 2026.

How well we know this

925 documents · 199 publishers · 18% contain a typed assertion · last evidence 15 Oct 2026

  • Gap: assertion coverage 0.181: about 82% of mentions carry no typed assertion
  • Gap: 1 receipt withheld: no source link (the same rule the topic record applies)

In this snapshot’s daily coverage:

Reported alongside Wildfire

Names most often reported alongside it; bigger circles and heavier lines mean more shared documents. A dashed circle has no page of its own yet.

ClimateIndonesiaAIOilImmigrationFranceTrumpUnited StatesEuropean Union

Story momentum

Rising

The word compares 79 mentions on 16 Oct 2026 with 56 on 25 Sept 2026 (+41%); a change of less than 8% either way reads Steady.

Daily mentions +690% from 1 Sept 2026 to 16 Oct 2026, between 5 and 79 a day

How often tracked coverage mentions Wildfire, day by day.

Market price, cited

Not priced yet

No open prediction market prices a question materially about Wildfire yet. Ask about Wildfire

No market price on file: no prediction market prices a question about this name yet

Coverage volume and market price are separate measures.

For developers

This page is also an object: GET https://sigb.ai/api/v1/node/e/6458ddce4b46698e89287c88 returns the same record as sb.node.v1. Or call the get_entity MCP tool at https://sigb.ai/api/mcp with name wildfire.

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    "knowledgeCutoff": "2026-10-16T18:58:23.620135+00:00",
    "snapshot": "this deploy's committed data files (commit not exposed in this runtime)"
  },
  "coverageTrend": "rising",
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    "changes": 1
  },
  "whereFrom": {
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    "children": [
      {
        "level": "reports",
        "label": "6 reports drawn on this page, each with its link",
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        }
      },
      {
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        "label": "33 coverage domains",
        "children": {
          "count": 18,
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        }
      },
      {
        "level": "not shown",
        "label": "The other 73 mentions",
        "edge": "counted daily from tracked coverage; single mentions are not listed one by one"
      }
    ]
  }
}

The figures on this page, as data. The tool returns the full entity record.

Events involving Wildfire

Most-reported first, then newest. Registered events come from the event record; reported events are groups of claims about one occurrence. Claims are grouped when they were first reported within 2 days of each other and either name at least 2 of the same people, places or things besides this one, or share at least 25% of their wording. Each claim keeps its own record.

  • Hot weather and winds raise California wildfire threat as power shutoffs start

    Reported claim · first reported 15 Oct 2026 · 1 claim · best-carried claim: 1 separate publisher

    single source

  • Singapore pollution spikes, East Timor shuts schools as Indonesia wildfire haze intensifies

    Reported claim · first reported 14 Oct 2026 · 1 claim · best-carried claim: 3 separate publishers

    reported by two

  • Prabowo thanks personnel battling wildfires across Indonesia

    Reported claim · first reported 13 Oct 2026 · 1 claim · best-carried claim: 1 separate publisher

    single source

Walk the record from Wildfire

Open where it comes from, follow a claim or a related name, and use the trail to come back. Every step says what it is, how it stands and when. Machines read the same record.

Wildfire

Entity.

Evidence
925 documents · 199 separate publishers · a mention shows the name is in use, not that any claim about it is true
Standing
A name from our starting list; its record is kept up to date automatically from coverage
Time
first seen 18 Jul 2026, last seen 15 Oct 2026
Measured
18% of mentions say something specific about it; the rest only name it
As of
16 Oct 2026
13 links from here

Who it moves with: the 10 names are in the map above.

What is claimed about it (3)

  • Reported by two: Reported by two sources that did not copy each other.
  • Single source: Reported by one source so far.

Situations it is named in (0)

none on file at this cutoff

For machines: this record as JSON

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What the coverage says

Recent reporting that names Wildfire, newest first. Open any row to follow it to the original article.

Evidence tiers: primary source = an official public record · attributed = a named outlet, receipt linked · lead = observed, not yet receipted.

What it connects to

Related records.

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Recorded history

  • 16 Oct 2026

    coverage state changed: fading to rising

    Previous state held since 7 Sept 2026

1 change recorded since 7 Oct 2026, newest first.

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Story momentum counts mentions in tracked coverage. Prices are the market’s own, cited with the venue. Informational only, not advice. As of 16 Oct 2026.