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Wildfires in Busselton

Busselton, Australia, has had 4 large fires recorded by GWIS since 2017: 14,082 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 9.7% 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. Tue 27 Low 24° · 39 % · 42 km/h
  2. Wed 28 Low 24° · 40 % · 40 km/h
  3. Thu 29 Low 23° · 49 % · 30 km/h
  4. Fri 30 Very low 20° · 60 % · 42 km/h
  5. Sat 31 Very low 20° · 76 % · 48 km/h
  6. Sun 1 Very low 18° · 56 % · 34 km/h
  7. Mon 2 Very low 19° · 55 % · 50 km/h
  8. Tue 3 Very low 20° · 50 % · 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

14,082
hectares burned
9.7 %
of its area
4
fires
1,458
km²

How many times has Busselton burned?

Busselton has burned 4 times since 2016, in 3 years: 2017, 2020 and 2022. The most recent: Busselton fire, April 2022, with 5,377 hectares inside the municipality. Together they add up to 14,082 hectares burned inside the municipality, but the distinct burned area is 12,901 hectares, 8.8 % of its surface: part of it burned more than once.

  1.   16
  2. 2× 17
  3.   18
  4.   19
  5. 1× 20
  6.   21
  7. 1× 22
  8.   23
  9.   24
  10.   25
  11.   26
4
fires
3
years with fire
14,082
cumulative ha
12,901
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 Busselton

  1. 5,377 ha Busselton fire, April 2022 where it started 3.7% of the municipality · 10,840 ha in total · 12 days
  2. 6,345 ha Busselton fire, April 2020 where it started 4.4% of the municipality · 6,325 ha in total · 4 days
  3. 2,256 ha Augusta Margaret River fire, 20 October 2017 1.6% of the municipality · 6,412 ha in total · 5 days
  4. 104 ha Augusta Margaret River fire, 13 October 2017 0.1% of the municipality · 5,532 ha in total · 3 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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