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Wildfires in Baw Baw

Baw Baw, Australia, has had 2 large fires recorded by GWIS since 2019: 9,179 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 2.3% of its area. Fire danger today: very low (FWI 0).

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 20° · 59 % · 30 km/h
  2. Tue 3 Very low 17° · 66 % · 31 km/h
  3. Wed 4 Very low 22° · 43 % · 59 km/h
  4. Thu 5 Very low 14° · 49 % · 47 km/h
  5. Fri 6 Very low 19° · 46 % · 48 km/h
  6. Sat 7 Very low 12° · 55 % · 65 km/h
  7. Sun 8 Very low 16° · 39 % · 38 km/h
  8. Mon 9 Very low 20° · 41 % · 51 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

9,179
hectares burned
2.3 %
of its area
2
fires
4,035
km²

How many times has Baw Baw burned?

Baw Baw has burned 2 times since 2016, in 1 year: 2019. The most recent: Cardinia fire, March 2019, with 251 hectares inside the municipality.

  1.   16
  2.   17
  3.   18
  4. 2× 19
  5.   20
  6.   21
  7.   22
  8.   23
  9.   24
  10.   25
  11.   26
2
fires
1
years with fire
9,179
cumulative ha
1 Mar 2019
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 Baw Baw

  1. 251 ha Cardinia fire, March 2019 0.1% of the municipality · 14,175 ha in total · 9 days
  2. 8,928 ha Baw Baw fire, January 2019 where it started 2.2% of the municipality · 8,943 ha in total · 10 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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