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Wildfires in Burdekin

Burdekin, Australia, has had 3 large fires recorded by GWIS since 2022: 33,650 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 6.6% of its area. Fire danger today: low (FWI 7).

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. Mon 26 Low 32° · 48 % · 37 km/h
  2. Tue 27 Low 32° · 52 % · 35 km/h
  3. Wed 28 Low 31° · 59 % · 39 km/h
  4. Thu 29 Low 32° · 50 % · 36 km/h
  5. Fri 30 Moderate 31° · 50 % · 39 km/h
  6. Sat 31 Very low 30° · 61 % · 37 km/h
  7. Sun 1 Very low 31° · 59 % · 35 km/h
  8. Mon 2 Low 32° · 57 % · 39 km/h
  9. Tue 3 Low 32° · 60 % · 41 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

33,650
hectares burned
6.6 %
of its area
3
fires
5,068
km²

How many times has Burdekin burned?

Burdekin has burned 3 times since 2016, in 2 years: 2022 and 2025. The most recent: Burdekin fire, December 2025, with 14,729 hectares inside the municipality. Together they add up to 33,650 hectares burned inside the municipality, but the distinct burned area is 27,357 hectares, 5.4 % of its surface: part of it burned more than once.

  1.   16
  2.   17
  3.   18
  4.   19
  5.   20
  6.   21
  7. 1× 22
  8.   23
  9.   24
  10. 2× 25
  11.   26
3
fires
2
years with fire
33,650
cumulative ha
27,357
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 Burdekin

  1. 14,729 ha Burdekin fire, December 2025 where it started 2.9% of the municipality · 14,636 ha in total · 19 days
  2. 2,696 ha Charters Towers fire, 31 October 2025 0.5% of the municipality · 8,922 ha in total · 9 days
  3. 16,226 ha Burdekin fire, November 2022 where it started 3.2% of the municipality · 19,218 ha in total · 14 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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