Broome fire, 6 November 2025 Broome
The fire started on 6 November 2025 in Broome, Australia, and satellites saw it burning for 6 days. Copernicus’s global GWIS system rebuilt a burnt perimeter of 12,286 hectares from heat detections, spread across a single municipality.
It is the 776th largest in Western Australia since 2016 (of 2718 with a page). Number 383 in Australia in 2025, of 1124.
- Burnt area
- 12,286ha
- GWIS perimeter (Copernicus)
- Duration
- 6days
- 6 Nov 2025 – 11 Nov 2025
- Municipalities hit
- 1
- local government areas
- Started on
- 6 Nov
- 2025
- Heat detections
- 303
- in a single hotspot: 184 MW
- Danger at start
- 30
- High · FWI index
- Energy released
- 4.0GW
- sum of detected power
Where it burned
How it evolved, day by day
Fire radiative power detected each day, in megawatts, and number of hotspots. The magenta bar marks the peak day.
The weather it burned in
It had gone 3 days without rain (1 mm or more) when it started. Rain came after the fire: 15.3 mm on 14 Nov.
This area had burned before
87% of the perimeter overlaps earlier fires recorded since 2016: 642 ha in 2016, 332 ha in 2017, 1,086 ha in 2018, 1,770 ha in 2019, 5,154 ha in 2021, 4,985 ha in 2022, 3,127 ha in 2023. Part of it burned more than once, so the yearly figures add up to more than the 10,640 ha that had burned before.
- 3,985 ha Broome fire, November 2021 51,877 ha in total; the hectares shown are those it shares with this fire
- 3,275 ha Broome fire, November 2022 14,407 ha in total; the hectares shown are those it shares with this fire
- 2,088 ha Broome fire, October 2023 15,496 ha in total; the hectares shown are those it shares with this fire
What happened to each town
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Broome where it started12,295 ha reached on 6 Nov0.2 %
Burnt area inside each municipality, from crossing the GWIS perimeter with administrative boundaries. The distance is from the town centre to the nearest fire: staying a kilometre away does not mean it reached the houses.
The weather day by day
ECMWF ERA5 reanalysis at the fire location, the standard reference for past weather, and the Canadian Fire Weather Index (the same system Copernicus uses), computed by WorldFires from that data. Days after the fire run until the first rain.
Open-Meteo.com (CC BY 4.0) · Copernicus Climate Change Service (ERA5)
| Day | High | Min. humidity | Peak gust | Rain | Danger (FWI) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 6 Nov | 34.5 °C | 45 % | 36 km/h | 0.1 mm | High 30 |
| 7 Nov | 33.9 °C | 43 % | 34 km/h | 0.1 mm | High 29 |
| 8 Nov | 34.7 °C | 40 % | 34 km/h | 0.2 mm | High 29 |
| 9 Nov | 34.4 °C | 38 % | 32 km/h | 0.0 mm | High 32 |
| 10 Nov | 35.3 °C | 41 % | 30 km/h | 0.3 mm | High 30 |
| 11 Nov | 35.5 °C | 38 % | 30 km/h | 1.0 mm | High 25 |
| 12 Nov after | 34.5 °C | 47 % | 30 km/h | 15.4 mm | Low 6 |
| 13 Nov after | 33.2 °C | 52 % | 29 km/h | 18.7 mm | Very low 2 |
| 14 Nov after | 29.5 °C | 67 % | 32 km/h | 15.3 mm | Very low 0 |
Before and after, from space
Drag the line to compare the same ground before the fire and after it.
If the day is cloudy, change the date: each satellite passes once a day. In false colour the burnt ground looks brown or red.
The smoke
CAMS · CopernicusOn 10 November 2025 the air beside the fire reached 37 µg/m³ of PM2.5. That day averaged 15: 1.0 times the WHO daily guideline (15).
Particles from the Copernicus CAMS model at the centre of the perimeter; these are not measurements in each town. The pale bar is the worst hour, the solid one the daily average.
Open-Meteo.com (CC BY 4.0) · Copernicus Atmosphere Monitoring Service (CAMS)
Detections table · 303Every satellite heat detection, one by one, with time, satellite, power and coordinates.
| Date and time | Satellite | FRP (MW) | Lat | Lon |
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Other fires nearby
Frequently asked questions
- How long did the Broome fire last?
- GWIS (Copernicus) dates it between 6 November 2025 and 11 November 2025: 6 days between the first and last heat detection of the perimeter.
- How much area did it burn?
- The perimeter GWIS (Copernicus) rebuilt from heat detections is 12,286 hectares (122.9 km²). It is an estimate: official national figures may differ.
- Which municipalities burned?
- The fire only entered Broome (12,295 ha, 0.2 %).
- What was the weather like?
- During the fire the temperature reached 35.5 °C, humidity dropped to 38 % and gusts hit 36 km/h. The fire danger index (FWI) reached 32, class High.
- Where does this data come from?
- From the GWIS (Copernicus) burnt perimeter, NASA FIRMS VIIRS hotspots and the administrative boundaries of Australia (geoBoundaries). It is not an official report.
Where to verify it
A satellite detection is not an official report. Final figures and the fire’s status are published by each country’s emergency service.
Emergency number: 000
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Where this data comes from
The perimeter comes from the Copernicus Global Wildfire Information System (GWIS), which rebuilds it from MODIS and VIIRS heat detections and publishes it under CC BY 4.0. It is not measured on imagery as in Europe, so it is an estimate. Heat detections come from the VIIRS sensors aboard Suomi-NPP and NOAA-20, distributed by NASA FIRMS at 375 m resolution. Municipal boundaries come from geoBoundaries ADM2 (Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)). The area per municipality is computed by WorldFires by crossing the perimeter with those boundaries, so it may differ from each country’s official figure.