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Wildfires in Ararat

Ararat, Australia, has had 2 large fires recorded by GWIS since 2024: 34,896 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 8.3% of its area. Fire danger today: very low (FWI 1).

Only fires of 5,000 ha or more get an entry: smaller ones are not in the lists or the totals on this page.

Fire danger, today and the coming days

FWI computed from the Open-Meteo forecast
  1. Mon 26 Very low 13° · 58 % · 39 km/h
  2. Tue 27 Very low 14° · 55 % · 36 km/h
  3. Wed 28 Very low 15° · 70 % · 41 km/h
  4. Thu 29 Very low 17° · 68 % · 20 km/h
  5. Fri 30 Very low 22° · 51 % · 34 km/h
  6. Sat 31 Very low 20° · 70 % · 43 km/h
  7. Sun 1 Very low 18° · 58 % · 41 km/h
  8. Mon 2 Very low 20° · 59 % · 37 km/h

Canadian Fire Weather Index, the same system Copernicus uses, computed by WorldFires from the weather forecast and two months of past weather for fuel state. It is an estimate per municipality, not an official warning: warnings are issued by each country’s emergency service.

The municipality and its fires

Since 2016

34,896
hectares burned
8.3 %
of its area
2
fires
4,218
km²

How many times has Ararat burned?

Ararat has burned 2 times since 2016, in 1 year: 2024. The most recent: Ararat fire, December 2024, with 28,939 hectares inside the municipality.

  1.   16
  2.   17
  3.   18
  4.   19
  5.   20
  6.   21
  7.   22
  8.   23
  9. 2× 24
  10.   25
  11.   26
2
fires
1
years with fire
34,896
cumulative ha
17 Dec 2024
most recent

Fires larger than 5,000 hectares with a perimeter since 2016 that reached the municipality, even partly. Cumulative hectares add up every fire; the distinct area counts land that burned several times only once. Perimeters and boundaries overlaid by WorldFires.

Where it has burned most often in Australia →

Fires that entered Ararat

  1. 28,939 ha Ararat fire, December 2024 where it started 6.9% of the municipality · 60,047 ha in total · 18 days
  2. 5,957 ha Ararat fire, February 2024 where it started 1.4% of the municipality · 6,087 ha in total · 7 days

Where this data comes from

Perimeters come from GWIS (Copernicus, CC BY 4.0), rebuilt from heat detections, and municipal boundaries from geoBoundaries/Australian Bureau of Statistics (Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)). The area per municipality is computed by WorldFires by crossing both. The forecast is from Open-Meteo (CC BY 4.0).

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