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Wildfires in Barcaldine

Barcaldine, Australia, has had 29 large fires recorded by GWIS since 2017: 235,957 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 4.4% of its area. Fire danger today: very low (FWI 3).

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. Sun 25 Very low 31° · 59 % · 45 km/h
  2. Mon 26 Very low 33° · 42 % · 31 km/h
  3. Tue 27 Low 33° · 43 % · 31 km/h
  4. Wed 28 Very low 32° · 56 % · 30 km/h
  5. Thu 29 Very low 30° · 58 % · 24 km/h
  6. Fri 30 Very low 28° · 68 % · 39 km/h
  7. Sat 31 Very low 29° · 57 % · 39 km/h
  8. Sun 1 Very low 30° · 53 % · 39 km/h
  9. Mon 2 Low 32° · 38 % · 34 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

235,957
hectares burned
4.4 %
of its area
29
fires
53,658
km²

How many times has Barcaldine burned?

Barcaldine has burned 29 times since 2016, in 9 years: 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023, 2024 and 2025. The most recent: Charters Towers fire, 1 December 2025, with 7,489 hectares inside the municipality. Together they add up to 235,957 hectares burned inside the municipality, but the distinct burned area is 222,494 hectares, 4.1 % of its surface: part of it burned more than once.

  1.   16
  2. 2× 17
  3. 1× 18
  4. 1× 19
  5. 1× 20
  6. 1× 21
  7. 2× 22
  8. 4× 23
  9. 8× 24
  10. 9× 25
  11.   26
29
fires
9
years with fire
235,957
cumulative ha
222,494
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 Barcaldine

  1. 7,489 ha Charters Towers fire, 1 December 2025 0.1% of the municipality · 14,832 ha in total · 8 days
  2. 851 ha Central Highlands (Qld) fire, 29 November 2025 0.0% of the municipality · 24,372 ha in total · 17 days
  3. 8,249 ha Barcaldine fire, 28 November 2025 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 8,163 ha in total · 15 days
  4. 5,830 ha Barcaldine fire, 20 November 2025 where it started 0.1% of the municipality · 5,822 ha in total · 3 days
  5. 96 ha Flinders (Qld) fire, October 2025 0.0% of the municipality · 6,946 ha in total · 7 days
  6. 13,856 ha Barcaldine fire, 16 January 2025 where it started 0.3% of the municipality · 13,775 ha in total · 5 days
  7. 5,567 ha Barcaldine fire, 16 January 2025 where it started 0.1% of the municipality · 5,528 ha in total · 4 days
  8. 8,086 ha Barcaldine fire, 10 January 2025 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 8,034 ha in total · 2 days
  9. 7,912 ha Barcaldine fire, 2 January 2025 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 7,870 ha in total · 3 days
  10. 12,197 ha Barcaldine fire, 24 December 2024 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 12,125 ha in total · 11 days
  11. 228 ha Flinders (Qld) fire, 24 December 2024 0.0% of the municipality · 6,023 ha in total · 8 days
  12. 10,407 ha Barcaldine fire, 5 December 2024 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 10,390 ha in total · 6 days
  13. 913 ha Central Highlands (Qld) fire, 2 December 2024 0.0% of the municipality · 14,441 ha in total · 14 days
  14. 6,263 ha Barcaldine fire, November 2024 where it started 0.1% of the municipality · 8,224 ha in total · 8 days
  15. 6,701 ha Barcaldine fire, 30 October 2024 where it started 0.1% of the municipality · 6,671 ha in total · 5 days
  16. 7,066 ha Barcaldine fire, 27 October 2024 where it started 0.1% of the municipality · 7,040 ha in total · 16 days
  17. 7,058 ha Barcaldine fire, 25 October 2024 where it started 0.1% of the municipality · 7,040 ha in total · 9 days
  18. 7,260 ha Barcaldine fire, 9 December 2023 where it started 0.1% of the municipality · 7,250 ha in total · 3 days
  19. 2,220 ha Central Highlands (Qld) fire, December 2023 0.0% of the municipality · 6,939 ha in total · 12 days
  20. 7,426 ha Barcaldine fire, 3 December 2023 where it started 0.1% of the municipality · 7,461 ha in total · 5 days
  21. 54,809 ha Charters Towers fire, 1 September 2023 1.0% of the municipality · 59,951 ha in total · 13 days
  22. 8,223 ha Barcaldine fire, December 2022 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 8,255 ha in total · 3 days
  23. 156 ha Isaac fire, February 2022 0.0% of the municipality · 6,507 ha in total · 12 days
  24. 17,291 ha Barcaldine fire, September 2021 where it started 0.3% of the municipality · 17,224 ha in total · 15 days
  25. 5,070 ha Barcaldine fire, June 2020 where it started 0.1% of the municipality · 5,082 ha in total · 6 days
  26. 18,350 ha Barcaldine fire, December 2019 where it started 0.3% of the municipality · 20,746 ha in total · 4 days
  27. 958 ha Blackall Tambo fire, December 2018 0.0% of the municipality · 9,889 ha in total · 18 days
  28. 3,916 ha Barcaldine fire, October 2017 where it started 0.1% of the municipality · 8,743 ha in total · 19 days
  29. 1,510 ha Central Highlands (Qld) fire, August 2017 0.0% of the municipality · 15,778 ha in total · 17 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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