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Wildfires in Blue Mountains

Blue Mountains, Australia, has had 3 large fires recorded by GWIS since 2019: 64,184 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 45% of its area. Fire danger today: low (FWI 8).

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. Thu 29 Low 24° · 25 % · 47 km/h
  2. Fri 30 Low 24° · 42 % · 44 km/h
  3. Sat 31 Very low 27° · 31 % · 50 km/h
  4. Sun 1 Low 26° · 28 % · 45 km/h
  5. Mon 2 Very low 23° · 49 % · 33 km/h
  6. Tue 3 Very low 28° · 30 % · 42 km/h
  7. Wed 4 Low 26° · 29 % · 55 km/h
  8. Thu 5 Low 20° · 35 % · 54 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

64,184
hectares burned
45 %
of its area
3
fires
1,436
km²

How many times has Blue Mountains burned?

Blue Mountains has burned 3 times since 2016, in 2 years: 2019 and 2020. The most recent: Blue Mountains fire, February 2020, with 4,881 hectares inside the municipality.

  1.   16
  2.   17
  3.   18
  4. 2× 19
  5. 1× 20
  6.   21
  7.   22
  8.   23
  9.   24
  10.   25
  11.   26
3
fires
2
years with fire
64,184
cumulative ha
1 Feb 2020
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 Blue Mountains

  1. 4,881 ha Blue Mountains fire, February 2020 where it started 3.4% of the municipality · 5,019 ha in total · 2 days
  2. 24,444 ha Wollondilly fire, November 2019 17% of the municipality · 322,078 ha in total · 55 days
  3. 34,859 ha Lithgow fire, October 2019 24% of the municipality · 855,014 ha in total · 82 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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