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Broome fire, 10 June 2026 Broome

Out · last detection 21 Jun 2026, 05:08 UTC

The fire started on 10 June 2026 in Broome, Australia, and satellites saw it burning for 11 days. Copernicus’s global GWIS system rebuilt a burnt perimeter of 9,038 hectares from heat detections, spread across a single municipality.

It is the 1195th largest in Western Australia since 2016 (of 2710 with a page). Number 382 in Australia in 2026, of 848.

Burnt area
9,038ha
GWIS perimeter (Copernicus)
Duration
11days
10 Jun 2026 – 20 Jun 2026
Municipalities hit
1
local government areas
Started on
10 Jun
2026
Heat detections
200
in a single hotspot: 112 MW
Danger at start
25
High · FWI index
Energy released
4.5GW
sum of detected power

Where it burned

21 Jun 2026
HOTSPOTS BY DAY 10 Jun20 Jun

How it evolved, day by day

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Fire radiative power detected each day, in megawatts, and number of hotspots. The magenta bar marks the peak day.

The weather it burned in

32°high
55km/h · peak gust
19%lowest humidity

It had gone 19 days without rain (1 mm or more) when it started.

This area had burned before

99% of the perimeter overlaps earlier fires recorded since 2016: 2,503 ha in 2017, 2,952 ha in 2018, 2,659 ha in 2019, 4,538 ha in 2020, 3,001 ha in 2021, 4,141 ha in 2022, 1,458 ha in 2023, 2,423 ha in 2024, 2,760 ha in 2025. Part of it burned more than once, so the yearly figures add up to more than the 8,971 ha that had burned before.

What happened to each town

  1. Broome where it started
    9,036 ha reached on 9 Jun
    0.2 %

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)
9 Jun 29.2 °C 31 % 24 km/h 0.0 mm High 25
10 Jun 30.5 °C 30 % 24 km/h 0.0 mm High 28
11 Jun 30.8 °C 30 % 29 km/h 0.0 mm High 31
12 Jun 30.9 °C 39 % 20 km/h 0.0 mm High 26
13 Jun 31.7 °C 32 % 30 km/h 0.0 mm High 30
14 Jun 31.0 °C 41 % 37 km/h 0.0 mm High 32
15 Jun 30.3 °C 43 % 21 km/h 0.0 mm High 25
16 Jun 29.8 °C 44 % 25 km/h 0.0 mm High 27
17 Jun 28.6 °C 38 % 34 km/h 0.0 mm High 32
18 Jun 27.2 °C 26 % 44 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 40
19 Jun 26.4 °C 23 % 55 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 48
20 Jun 26.6 °C 19 % 49 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 48
21 Jun after 27.6 °C 26 % 44 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 45
22 Jun after 28.0 °C 30 % 34 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 40
23 Jun after 28.9 °C 30 % 28 km/h 0.0 mm High 35
24 Jun after 29.4 °C 29 % 34 km/h 0.0 mm High 37
25 Jun after 29.3 °C 30 % 37 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 40
26 Jun after 29.2 °C 32 % 37 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 39
27 Jun after 28.9 °C 30 % 26 km/h 0.0 mm High 33
28 Jun after 29.1 °C 35 % 28 km/h 0.0 mm High 33
29 Jun after 29.0 °C 40 % 21 km/h 0.0 mm High 28
30 Jun after 29.6 °C 32 % 31 km/h 0.0 mm High 33
1 Jul after 26.2 °C 54 % 19 km/h 0.0 mm High 22

Before and after, from space

Drag the line to compare the same ground before the fire and after it.

Before · 3 Jun 2026
After · 27 Jun 2026

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 · Copernicus

On 12 June 2026 the air beside the fire reached 35 µg/m³ of PM2.5. That day averaged 21: 1.4 times the WHO daily guideline (15).

PM2.5 peak35 µg/m³
Days over the guideline2 days
PM1036 µg/m³
Optical depth0.27
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Good Fair Moderate Poor Very poor Extremely poor

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 · 200Every satellite heat detection, one by one, with time, satellite, power and coordinates.
⬇ Download CSV Times in UTC. Each detection is a 375 m pixel: a large fire yields hundreds per pass.
Date and timeSatelliteFRP (MW)LatLon

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Frequently asked questions

How long did the Broome fire last?
GWIS (Copernicus) dates it between 10 June 2026 and 20 June 2026: 11 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 9,038 hectares (90.4 km²). It is an estimate: official national figures may differ.
Which municipalities burned?
The fire only entered Broome (9,036 ha, 0.2 %).
What was the weather like?
During the fire the temperature reached 31.7 °C, humidity dropped to 19 % and gusts hit 55 km/h. The fire danger index (FWI) reached 48, class Very 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.