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Wildfires in Boulia

Boulia, Australia, has had 7 large fires recorded by GWIS since 2023: 64,243 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 1.0% of its area. Fire danger today: very high (FWI 45).

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. Fri 30 Very high 36° · 26 % · 38 km/h
  2. Sat 31 Very high 38° · 19 % · 42 km/h
  3. Sun 1 Extreme 39° · 17 % · 41 km/h
  4. Mon 2 Very high 40° · 18 % · 39 km/h
  5. Tue 3 Extreme 42° · 17 % · 51 km/h
  6. Wed 4 Extreme 40° · 14 % · 54 km/h
  7. Thu 5 Extreme 39° · 11 % · 53 km/h
  8. Fri 6 Extreme 38° · 10 % · 37 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

64,243
hectares burned
1.0 %
of its area
7
fires
61,291
km²

How many times has Boulia burned?

Boulia has burned 7 times since 2016, in 3 years: 2023, 2024 and 2026. The most recent: Boulia fire, January 2026, with 10,228 hectares inside the municipality.

  1.   16
  2.   17
  3.   18
  4.   19
  5.   20
  6.   21
  7.   22
  8. 4× 23
  9. 2× 24
  10.   25
  11. 1× 26
7
fires
3
years with fire
64,243
cumulative ha
8 Jan 2026
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 Boulia

  1. 10,228 ha Boulia fire, January 2026 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 10,178 ha in total · 6 days
  2. 24,419 ha Boulia fire, October 2024 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 24,445 ha in total · 4 days
  3. 9,580 ha Mount Isa fire, 29 September 2024 0.2% of the municipality · 63,023 ha in total · 14 days
  4. 5,710 ha Boulia fire, 25 December 2023 where it started 0.1% of the municipality · 5,721 ha in total · 4 days
  5. 7,959 ha Cloncurry fire, 24 December 2023 0.1% of the municipality · 11,803 ha in total · 6 days
  6. 710 ha Cloncurry fire, 15 December 2023 0.0% of the municipality · 19,962 ha in total · 10 days
  7. 5,637 ha Boulia fire, 4 December 2023 where it started 0.1% of the municipality · 5,613 ha in total · 4 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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