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Wildfires in Boddington

Boddington, Australia, has had 18 large fires recorded by GWIS since 2016: 73,776 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 39% 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. Sat 24 Moderate 15° · 34 % · 43 km/h
  2. Sun 25 Moderate 18° · 31 % · 42 km/h
  3. Mon 26 Very low 19° · 37 % · 32 km/h
  4. Tue 27 Low 22° · 34 % · 39 km/h
  5. Wed 28 Low 22° · 30 % · 44 km/h
  6. Thu 29 Moderate 27° · 31 % · 40 km/h
  7. Fri 30 Moderate 20° · 42 % · 44 km/h
  8. Sat 31 Very low 20° · 54 % · 50 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

73,776
hectares burned
39 %
of its area
18
fires
1,910
km²

How many times has Boddington burned?

Boddington has burned 18 times since 2016, in 9 years: 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2021, 2022, 2024, 2025 and 2026. The most recent: Harvey fire, April 2026, with 41 hectares inside the municipality. Together they add up to 73,776 hectares burned inside the municipality, but the distinct burned area is 53,892 hectares, 28 % of its surface: part of it burned more than once.

  1. 5× 16
  2. 2× 17
  3. 1× 18
  4. 1× 19
  5.   20
  6. 1× 21
  7. 1× 22
  8.   23
  9. 1× 24
  10. 4× 25
  11. 2× 26
18
fires
9
years with fire
73,776
cumulative ha
53,892
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 Boddington

  1. 41 ha Harvey fire, April 2026 0.0% of the municipality · 8,028 ha in total · 5 days
  2. 5,687 ha Boddington fire, April 2026 where it started 3.0% of the municipality · 6,297 ha in total · 6 days
  3. 6,578 ha Boddington fire, December 2025 where it started 3.4% of the municipality · 6,560 ha in total · 5 days
  4. 535 ha Wandering fire, October 2025 0.3% of the municipality · 7,308 ha in total · 8 days
  5. 2,838 ha Williams fire, September 2025 1.5% of the municipality · 6,124 ha in total · 5 days
  6. 5,360 ha Boddington fire, September 2025 where it started 2.8% of the municipality · 5,339 ha in total · 7 days
  7. 5,922 ha Boddington fire, September 2024 where it started 3.1% of the municipality · 8,491 ha in total · 7 days
  8. 6,603 ha Boddington fire, May 2022 where it started 3.5% of the municipality · 11,286 ha in total · 8 days
  9. 5,919 ha Boddington fire, April 2021 where it started 3.1% of the municipality · 5,911 ha in total · 8 days
  10. 6,632 ha Murray fire, May 2019 3.5% of the municipality · 7,079 ha in total · 8 days
  11. 9,316 ha Boddington fire, May 2018 where it started 4.9% of the municipality · 9,279 ha in total · 5 days
  12. 556 ha Wandering fire, September 2017 0.3% of the municipality · 5,317 ha in total · 4 days
  13. 3,518 ha Waroona fire, March 2017 1.8% of the municipality · 5,839 ha in total · 4 days
  14. 62 ha Collie fire, October 2016 0.0% of the municipality · 11,153 ha in total · 6 days
  15. 734 ha Waroona fire, October 2016 0.4% of the municipality · 5,559 ha in total · 10 days
  16. 6,725 ha Boddington fire, 18 October 2016 where it started 3.5% of the municipality · 6,911 ha in total · 6 days
  17. 6,408 ha Boddington fire, 11 October 2016 where it started 3.4% of the municipality · 8,651 ha in total · 3 days
  18. 341 ha Boddington fire, January 2016 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 49,556 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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