It's fires there too, actually. It is the middle of dry season right now for central Africa.

Windy also has an "Active fires" layer: https://www.windy.com/-Show---add-more-layers/overlays?fires...

(but the pollution layers are often more fun, and more revealing)

which I think is data from Copernicus, but I'm not sure what the data is exactly.

When you get off a plane from Europe to sub-Saharan Africa, you are often greeted by the smell of countless open cooking fires dotting the land. It’s quite nice in my opinion, though it’s not healthy for those who use them.

I think the ones in the middle of Australia are large scale mining operations. There are no cities there and no forests either.

The African ones probably are probably mines too.