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Wildfires in Banana

Banana, Australia, has had 36 large fires recorded by GWIS since 2016: 410,654 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 14% of its area. Fire danger today: very low (FWI 5).

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 2 Very low 31° · 51 % · 32 km/h
  2. Tue 3 Very low 31° · 47 % · 40 km/h
  3. Wed 4 Low 33° · 28 % · 22 km/h
  4. Thu 5 Moderate 34° · 22 % · 19 km/h
  5. Fri 6 Moderate 34° · 27 % · 24 km/h
  6. Sat 7 Very low 33° · 45 % · 39 km/h
  7. Sun 8 Moderate 33° · 24 % · 51 km/h
  8. Mon 9 Moderate 30° · 39 % · 45 km/h
  9. Tue 10 Low 31° · 43 % · 35 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

410,654
hectares burned
14 %
of its area
36
fires
28,705
km²

How many times has Banana burned?

Banana has burned 36 times since 2016, in 10 years: 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021, 2023, 2024, 2025 and 2026. The most recent: Banana fire, August 2026, with 7,546 hectares inside the municipality. Together they add up to 410,654 hectares burned inside the municipality, but the distinct burned area is 337,592 hectares, 12 % of its surface: part of it burned more than once.

  1. 4× 16
  2. 2× 17
  3. 2× 18
  4. 8× 19
  5. 1× 20
  6. 1× 21
  7.   22
  8. 7× 23
  9. 2× 24
  10. 5× 25
  11. 4× 26
36
fires
10
years with fire
410,654
cumulative ha
337,592
distinct ha

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 Banana

  1. 7,546 ha Banana fire, August 2026 where it started 0.3% of the municipality · 7,474 ha in total · 38 days
  2. 6,651 ha Banana fire, July 2026 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 6,604 ha in total · 11 days
  3. 7,659 ha Banana fire, 15 April 2026 where it started 0.3% of the municipality · 7,612 ha in total · 12 days
  4. 16,857 ha Banana fire, 14 April 2026 where it started 0.6% of the municipality · 16,727 ha in total · 17 days
  5. 807 ha Central Highlands (Qld) fire, 27 November 2025 0.0% of the municipality · 6,927 ha in total · 18 days
  6. 5,037 ha Banana fire, November 2025 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 5,010 ha in total · 26 days
  7. 22,560 ha Banana fire, 27 September 2025 where it started 0.8% of the municipality · 22,370 ha in total · 30 days
  8. 25,460 ha Banana fire, 23 September 2025 where it started 0.9% of the municipality · 25,259 ha in total · 19 days
  9. 13,782 ha Banana fire, February 2025 where it started 0.5% of the municipality · 16,048 ha in total · 17 days
  10. 1,832 ha Central Highlands (Qld) fire, October 2024 0.1% of the municipality · 12,552 ha in total · 21 days
  11. 9,917 ha Banana fire, September 2024 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 9,835 ha in total · 10 days
  12. 3,698 ha North Burnett fire, 4 December 2023 0.1% of the municipality · 10,657 ha in total · 7 days
  13. 7,324 ha Banana fire, 4 December 2023 where it started 0.3% of the municipality · 7,294 ha in total · 7 days
  14. 7,359 ha Banana fire, 4 December 2023 where it started 0.3% of the municipality · 7,337 ha in total · 12 days
  15. 3,863 ha Banana fire, November 2023 where it started 0.1% of the municipality · 14,210 ha in total · 20 days
  16. 14,737 ha Gladstone fire, 14 October 2023 0.5% of the municipality · 30,143 ha in total · 21 days
  17. 6,772 ha Banana fire, September 2023 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 6,701 ha in total · 40 days
  18. 18,426 ha Banana fire, May 2023 where it started 0.6% of the municipality · 20,042 ha in total · 11 days
  19. 6,015 ha Banana fire, September 2021 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 5,955 ha in total · 23 days
  20. 7,185 ha Banana fire, October 2020 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 7,117 ha in total · 14 days
  21. 9,901 ha Banana fire, 24 December 2019 where it started 0.3% of the municipality · 9,810 ha in total · 22 days
  22. 42,319 ha Banana fire, 2 December 2019 where it started 1.5% of the municipality · 65,950 ha in total · 41 days
  23. 7,461 ha Banana fire, November 2019 where it started 0.3% of the municipality · 7,419 ha in total · 20 days
  24. 6,488 ha Banana fire, 13 February 2019 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 6,436 ha in total · 15 days
  25. 7,368 ha Banana fire, 12 February 2019 where it started 0.3% of the municipality · 7,320 ha in total · 13 days
  26. 14,480 ha Banana fire, 8 February 2019 where it started 0.5% of the municipality · 35,106 ha in total · 36 days
  27. 26,320 ha Banana fire, 4 February 2019 where it started 0.9% of the municipality · 26,138 ha in total · 20 days
  28. 19,381 ha Banana fire, January 2019 where it started 0.7% of the municipality · 19,267 ha in total · 24 days
  29. 11,220 ha Banana fire, 23 December 2018 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 11,923 ha in total · 15 days
  30. 10,077 ha Banana fire, 21 December 2018 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 9,999 ha in total · 17 days
  31. 15,067 ha Banana fire, August 2017 where it started 0.5% of the municipality · 16,717 ha in total · 24 days
  32. 15,921 ha Banana fire, February 2017 where it started 0.6% of the municipality · 15,791 ha in total · 14 days
  33. 1,726 ha Maranoa fire, December 2016 0.1% of the municipality · 5,073 ha in total · 4 days
  34. 11,372 ha Banana fire, 14 November 2016 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 11,261 ha in total · 23 days
  35. 10,378 ha Banana fire, 12 November 2016 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 21,415 ha in total · 15 days
  36. 7,690 ha Banana fire, 9 November 2016 where it started 0.3% of the municipality · 7,600 ha in total · 27 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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