An electrical audit of the Northern Territory's public housing stock following the death of a young boy in an Alice Springs house fire has found 58 per cent of properties "required immediate remediation works", an inquest has heard.

On Wednesday, an inquest into the death of Mitchell Thomas heard the three-year-old was unable to be revived after suffering smoke inhalation from a fire that started in the roof of a property in Larapinta in 2023.

In his opening address, counsel assisting Coroner Elisabeth Armitage, Paul Morgan, told the Alice Springs Local Court initial investigations had identified the cause of the fire as an electrical fault.

Mr Morgan said Mitchell's mother Kiannah Beattie left her son in the care of his 16-year-old uncle to attend an appointment at about 9:40am on June

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