Croydon fire, 10 October 2025 Croydon, Carpentaria
The fire started on 10 October 2025 in Croydon, Australia, and satellites saw it burning for 36 days. Copernicus’s global GWIS system rebuilt a burnt perimeter of 180,508 hectares from heat detections, spread across 2 municipalities.
This page is probably a fire complex, not a single fire. GWIS merges into one perimeter the fires that touch over weeks, which in large burning seasons can join dozens of separate fires. The total area is reliable; the origin and dates refer to the whole complex.
Other fire pages in the same area and on the same dates:
- 35,599 haCroydon16 October 2025 · 28 days
- 31,548 haCroydon30 October 2025 · 14 days
- 25,119 haCarpentaria4 November 2025 · 11 days
- 21,789 haCarpentaria16 October 2025 · 12 days
- 20,017 haCroydon13 October 2025 · 9 days
- 9,596 haCroydon15 October 2025 · 8 days
- 8,497 haCroydon27 October 2025 · 6 days
- 6,915 haCroydon18 October 2025 · 8 days
It is the 8th largest in Queensland since 2016 (of 1737 with a page). Number 7 in Australia in 2025, of 1124.
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- Burnt area
- 180,508ha
- GWIS perimeter (Copernicus)
- Duration
- 36days
- 10 Oct 2025 – 14 Nov 2025
- Municipalities hit
- 2
- local government areas
- Started on
- 10 Oct
- 2025
- Heat detections
- 5,335
- in a single hotspot: 422 MW
- Danger at start
- 49
- Very high · FWI index
- Average daily power
- 1.8GW
- detected power per day, on average
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 19 days without rain (1 mm or more) when it started. Rain came after the fire: 12.1 mm on 16 Nov.
This area had burned before
64% of the perimeter overlaps earlier fires recorded since 2016: 44,254 ha in 2016, 25,649 ha in 2017, 2,254 ha in 2018, 3,548 ha in 2019, 8,535 ha in 2020, 14,147 ha in 2021, 3,042 ha in 2022, 42,726 ha in 2023, 9,961 ha in 2024. Part of it burned more than once, so the yearly figures add up to more than the 114,696 ha that had burned before.
- 35,354 ha Carpentaria fire, October 2023 81,998 ha in total; the hectares shown are those it shares with this fire
- 16,586 ha Croydon fire, November 2016 36,595 ha in total; the hectares shown are those it shares with this fire
- 6,692 ha Croydon fire, December 2020 9,579 ha in total; the hectares shown are those it shares with this fire
- 6,581 ha Croydon fire, November 2016 21,076 ha in total; the hectares shown are those it shares with this fire
- 6,123 ha Croydon fire, October 2024 12,280 ha in total; the hectares shown are those it shares with this fire
- 4,430 ha Carpentaria fire, November 2017 9,806 ha in total; the hectares shown are those it shares with this fire
- 2,399 ha Carpentaria fire, November 2016 5,980 ha in total; the hectares shown are those it shares with this fire
- 1,977 ha Croydon fire, October 2021 6,530 ha in total; the hectares shown are those it shares with this fire
How big is it?
London boundary: geoBoundaries · Office for National Statistics (Open Government Licence v3.0).
Paris boundary: geoBoundaries · Institut national de l'information géographique et forestière (IGN-F) (Etalab Open License 2.0).
Madrid boundary: geoBoundaries · Open Data ESRI, IGN Central Registry of Cartography Area (CC BY 4.0).
Berlin boundary: geoBoundaries · Federal Agency for Cartography and Geodesy (dl-de/by-2-0).
This compares size, not location: both shapes are at the same scale, north up, centred on each other.
What happened to each town
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Croydon where it started100,523 ha reached on 10 Oct3.4 %
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81,896 ha reached on 10 Oct1.3 %
Burnt area inside each municipality, from crossing the GWIS perimeter with administrative boundaries. The distance runs from the point marking the centre of each area to the nearest fire: staying a kilometre away does not mean it reached the houses.
People and buildings inside the perimeter
GHSL 2025Inside the perimeter there were about 0.55 hectares of built-up land and almost nobody lived there (GHSL 2025, satellite-based estimate).
This is an estimate on 100 m cells, made from satellite imagery and census data: it does not mean that homes burned or that anyone was harmed. The perimeter also contains land that never burned. The GHSL 2025 epoch is a projection made from 2020 and earlier data.
Source: Global Human Settlement Layer (GHS-BUILT-S and GHS-POP R2023A), European Commission Joint Research Centre (JRC), © European Union, CC BY 4.0. Sum inside the perimeter computed by WorldFires. human-settlement.emergency.copernicus.eu
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) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 10 Oct | 38.8 °C | 28 % | 38 km/h | 0.0 mm | Very high 49 |
| 11 Oct | 38.4 °C | 19 % | 41 km/h | 0.0 mm | Extreme 51 |
| 12 Oct | 37.2 °C | 22 % | 34 km/h | 0.0 mm | Very high 49 |
| 13 Oct | 39.3 °C | 22 % | 28 km/h | 0.0 mm | Very high 45 |
| 14 Oct | 37.4 °C | 33 % | 37 km/h | 2.8 mm | High 26 |
| 15 Oct | 35.7 °C | 33 % | 31 km/h | 6.0 mm | Moderate 13 |
| 16 Oct | 36.6 °C | 27 % | 37 km/h | 0.0 mm | High 34 |
| 17 Oct | 37.0 °C | 24 % | 36 km/h | 0.0 mm | High 36 |
| 18 Oct | 38.7 °C | 17 % | 39 km/h | 0.0 mm | Very high 45 |
| 19 Oct | 40.0 °C | 14 % | 34 km/h | 0.0 mm | Very high 47 |
| 20 Oct | 38.4 °C | 17 % | 38 km/h | 0.0 mm | Very high 49 |
| 21 Oct | 38.0 °C | 23 % | 36 km/h | 0.0 mm | Very high 46 |
| 22 Oct | 37.6 °C | 29 % | 34 km/h | 0.0 mm | Very high 40 |
| 23 Oct | 38.5 °C | 29 % | 35 km/h | 0.0 mm | Very high 41 |
| 24 Oct | 39.2 °C | 25 % | 34 km/h | 0.0 mm | Very high 40 |
| 25 Oct | 38.8 °C | 25 % | 40 km/h | 0.0 mm | Very high 45 |
| 26 Oct | 39.5 °C | 27 % | 36 km/h | 0.0 mm | Very high 45 |
| 27 Oct | 38.5 °C | 31 % | 44 km/h | 3.2 mm | High 26 |
| 28 Oct | 36.1 °C | 34 % | 32 km/h | 0.4 mm | High 30 |
| 29 Oct | 37.6 °C | 27 % | 37 km/h | 0.0 mm | Very high 39 |
| 30 Oct | 39.8 °C | 18 % | 26 km/h | 0.0 mm | Very high 42 |
| 31 Oct | 40.5 °C | 14 % | 31 km/h | 0.0 mm | Very high 47 |
| 1 Nov | 39.9 °C | 22 % | 36 km/h | 0.0 mm | Very high 49 |
| 2 Nov | 40.2 °C | 23 % | 35 km/h | 0.0 mm | Extreme 51 |
| 3 Nov | 33.5 °C | 36 % | 52 km/h | 1.3 mm | High 34 |
| 4 Nov | 34.9 °C | 32 % | 42 km/h | 0.0 mm | High 37 |
| 5 Nov | 38.1 °C | 17 % | 34 km/h | 0.0 mm | Very high 48 |
| 6 Nov | 39.7 °C | 16 % | 38 km/h | 0.0 mm | Extreme 51 |
| 7 Nov | 38.8 °C | 19 % | 41 km/h | 0.0 mm | Extreme 53 |
| 8 Nov | 36.0 °C | 36 % | 52 km/h | 3.1 mm | High 24 |
| 9 Nov | 34.8 °C | 38 % | 41 km/h | 0.1 mm | High 30 |
| 10 Nov | 36.6 °C | 18 % | 41 km/h | 0.0 mm | Very high 45 |
| 11 Nov | 38.3 °C | 9 % | 40 km/h | 0.0 mm | Extreme 55 |
| 12 Nov | 37.7 °C | 11 % | 36 km/h | 0.0 mm | Extreme 54 |
| 13 Nov | 35.3 °C | 20 % | 49 km/h | 0.1 mm | Extreme 56 |
| 14 Nov | 35.8 °C | 37 % | 41 km/h | 0.0 mm | Very high 43 |
| 15 Nov after | 37.1 °C | 32 % | 37 km/h | 0.3 mm | Very high 39 |
| 16 Nov after | 32.9 °C | 47 % | 33 km/h | 12.1 mm | Low 5 |
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 22 October 2025 the air beside the fire reached 94 µg/m³ of PM2.5. That day averaged 46: 3.1 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 · 5,335Every satellite heat detection, one by one, with time, satellite, power and coordinates.
| Date and time | Satellite | FRP (MW) | Lat | Lon |
|---|
Other fires nearby
- 35,599 haCroydon16 October 2025 · 28 days · 27 km away
- 27,695 haCroydon2 November 2024 · 8 days · 27 km away
- 18,380 haCarpentaria16 October 2021 · 5 days · 35 km away
- 81,998 haCarpentaria23 October 2023 · 11 days · 36 km away
- 31,548 haCroydon30 October 2025 · 14 days · 37 km away
- 84,659 haCroydonSeptember 2023 · 9 days · 40 km away
Frequently asked questions
- How long did the Croydon fire last?
- GWIS (Copernicus) dates it between 10 October 2025 and 14 November 2025: 36 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 180,508 hectares (1,805.1 km²). It is an estimate: official national figures may differ.
- Which municipalities burned?
- The fire entered 2 municipalities: Croydon (100,523 ha, 3.4 %); Carpentaria (81,896 ha, 1.3 %).
- What was the weather like?
- During the fire the temperature reached 40.5 °C, humidity dropped to 9 % and gusts hit 52 km/h. The fire danger index (FWI) reached 56, class Extreme.
- 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 · Emergency number and official warnings ›
Satellite cross-check
History of this page Changes in area, dates, name, official record or merged pages, compared every night since 24 October 2026.
No changes since 24 October 2026.
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How we know this
- Perimeter: GWIS (Copernicus), rebuilt from heat detections rather than mapped on imagery; 6 polygons grouped in this page.
- Dates from the perimeter: the VIIRS detections inside it did not change them. 5,335 Suomi-NPP VIIRS detections on those dates.
- We have not matched this page with any official record.
- Weather: Copernicus ERA5 reanalysis at the fire location, in cells of about 25 km.
- Built-up area and population come from the JRC Global Human Settlement Layer (epoch 2025, 100 m cells), summed inside the perimeter: an estimate of what was there, not a damage count.
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.