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Wildfires in Bundaberg

Bundaberg, Australia, has had 10 large fires recorded by GWIS since 2016: 52,631 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 8.1% 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. Fri 23 Very low 25° · 83 % · 39 km/h
  2. Sat 24 Very low 24° · 83 % · 29 km/h
  3. Sun 25 Very low 28° · 68 % · 42 km/h
  4. Mon 26 Very low 32° · 54 % · 34 km/h
  5. Tue 27 Very low 32° · 51 % · 33 km/h
  6. Wed 28 Very low 28° · 69 % · 44 km/h
  7. Thu 29 Very low 29° · 35 % · 41 km/h
  8. Fri 30 Very low 26° · 45 % · 32 km/h
  9. Sat 31 Very low 24° · 67 % · 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

52,631
hectares burned
8.1 %
of its area
10
fires
6,460
km²

How many times has Bundaberg burned?

Bundaberg has burned 10 times since 2016, in 4 years: 2016, 2019, 2020 and 2025. The most recent: Bundaberg fire, October 2025, with 5,898 hectares inside the municipality. Together they add up to 52,631 hectares burned inside the municipality, but the distinct burned area is 44,393 hectares, 6.9 % of its surface: part of it burned more than once.

  1. 2× 16
  2.   17
  3.   18
  4. 4× 19
  5. 1× 20
  6.   21
  7.   22
  8.   23
  9.   24
  10. 3× 25
  11.   26
10
fires
4
years with fire
52,631
cumulative ha
44,393
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 Bundaberg

  1. 5,898 ha Bundaberg fire, October 2025 where it started 0.9% of the municipality · 5,876 ha in total · 13 days
  2. 12,982 ha North Burnett fire, 25 September 2025 2.0% of the municipality · 16,614 ha in total · 27 days
  3. 1 ha North Burnett fire, 11 September 2025 0.0% of the municipality · 8,171 ha in total · 33 days
  4. 3,431 ha North Burnett fire, August 2020 0.5% of the municipality · 6,883 ha in total · 17 days
  5. 7,666 ha Bundaberg fire, December 2019 where it started 1.2% of the municipality · 7,628 ha in total · 7 days
  6. 895 ha Gladstone fire, November 2019 0.1% of the municipality · 8,404 ha in total · 31 days
  7. 6,162 ha Bundaberg fire, November 2019 where it started 1.0% of the municipality · 6,183 ha in total · 4 days
  8. 7,133 ha Bundaberg fire, March 2019 where it started 1.1% of the municipality · 7,095 ha in total · 6 days
  9. 3,135 ha Gladstone fire, 28 November 2016 0.5% of the municipality · 7,958 ha in total · 11 days
  10. 5,328 ha North Burnett fire, 6 October 2016 0.8% of the municipality · 9,663 ha in total · 17 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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