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Wildfires in Blackall Tambo

Blackall Tambo, Australia, has had 13 large fires recorded by GWIS since 2018: 111,152 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 3.6% of its area. Fire danger today: moderate (FWI 14).

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. Tue 3 Moderate 36° · 23 % · 41 km/h
  2. Wed 4 Moderate 32° · 19 % · 25 km/h
  3. Thu 5 Moderate 34° · 19 % · 28 km/h
  4. Fri 6 Moderate 34° · 23 % · 24 km/h
  5. Sat 7 High 36° · 20 % · 37 km/h
  6. Sun 8 High 33° · 20 % · 46 km/h
  7. Mon 9 High 34° · 19 % · 37 km/h
  8. Tue 10 Low 34° · 32 % · 49 km/h
  9. Wed 11 Low 34° · 44 % · 59 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

111,152
hectares burned
3.6 %
of its area
13
fires
30,672
km²

How many times has Blackall Tambo burned?

Blackall Tambo has burned 13 times since 2016, in 6 years: 2018, 2019, 2022, 2023, 2024 and 2025. The most recent: Blackall Tambo fire, November 2025, with 7,130 hectares inside the municipality. Together they add up to 111,152 hectares burned inside the municipality, but the distinct burned area is 101,287 hectares, 3.3 % of its surface: part of it burned more than once.

  1.   16
  2.   17
  3. 2× 18
  4. 2× 19
  5.   20
  6.   21
  7. 1× 22
  8. 3× 23
  9. 3× 24
  10. 2× 25
  11.   26
13
fires
6
years with fire
111,152
cumulative ha
101,287
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 Blackall Tambo

  1. 7,130 ha Blackall Tambo fire, November 2025 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 11,005 ha in total · 12 days
  2. 9,259 ha Blackall Tambo fire, October 2025 where it started 0.3% of the municipality · 9,223 ha in total · 12 days
  3. 15,610 ha Blackall Tambo fire, November 2024 where it started 0.5% of the municipality · 17,098 ha in total · 9 days
  4. 6,869 ha Blackall Tambo fire, October 2024 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 6,835 ha in total · 10 days
  5. 753 ha Central Highlands (Qld) fire, August 2024 0.0% of the municipality · 14,011 ha in total · 14 days
  6. 415 ha Murweh fire, December 2023 0.0% of the municipality · 7,474 ha in total · 13 days
  7. 35,150 ha Central Highlands (Qld) fire, 6 September 2023 1.2% of the municipality · 75,449 ha in total · 25 days
  8. 7,825 ha Blackall Tambo fire, March 2023 where it started 0.3% of the municipality · 7,778 ha in total · 20 days
  9. 6,587 ha Blackall Tambo fire, December 2022 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 6,591 ha in total · 9 days
  10. 6,123 ha Central Highlands (Qld) fire, 24 December 2019 0.2% of the municipality · 13,324 ha in total · 20 days
  11. 6,362 ha Blackall Tambo fire, November 2019 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 14,822 ha in total · 11 days
  12. 8,948 ha Blackall Tambo fire, December 2018 where it started 0.3% of the municipality · 9,889 ha in total · 18 days
  13. 123 ha Central Highlands (Qld) fire, March 2018 0.0% of the municipality · 8,084 ha in total · 3 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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