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Wildfires in Carnarvon

Carnarvon, Australia, has had 13 large fires recorded by GWIS since 2018: 147,271 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 3.2% of its area. Fire danger today: very extreme (FWI 81).

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. Sun 25 Very extreme 29° · 7 % · 59 km/h
  2. Mon 26 Very extreme 28° · 10 % · 56 km/h
  3. Tue 27 Extreme 27° · 22 % · 47 km/h
  4. Wed 28 Extreme 28° · 28 % · 54 km/h
  5. Thu 29 Extreme 31° · 28 % · 45 km/h
  6. Fri 30 Extreme 31° · 25 % · 54 km/h
  7. Sat 31 Extreme 30° · 33 % · 49 km/h
  8. Sun 1 Extreme 29° · 27 % · 47 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

147,271
hectares burned
3.2 %
of its area
13
fires
46,742
km²

How many times has Carnarvon burned?

Carnarvon has burned 13 times since 2016, in 4 years: 2018, 2019, 2022 and 2023. The most recent: Carnarvon fire, November 2023, with 4,453 hectares inside the municipality.

  1.   16
  2.   17
  3. 2× 18
  4. 1× 19
  5.   20
  6.   21
  7. 7× 22
  8. 3× 23
  9.   24
  10.   25
  11.   26
13
fires
4
years with fire
147,271
cumulative ha
7 Nov 2023
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 Carnarvon

  1. 4,453 ha Carnarvon fire, November 2023 where it started 0.1% of the municipality · 5,511 ha in total · 4 days
  2. 16,865 ha Carnarvon fire, March 2023 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 16,846 ha in total · 7 days
  3. 11,324 ha Carnarvon fire, February 2023 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 11,300 ha in total · 3 days
  4. 7,564 ha Carnarvon fire, December 2022 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 7,619 ha in total · 4 days
  5. 14,192 ha Carnarvon fire, September 2022 where it started 0.3% of the municipality · 14,001 ha in total · 16 days
  6. 6,637 ha Carnarvon fire, March 2022 where it started 0.1% of the municipality · 6,576 ha in total · 8 days
  7. 8,028 ha Carnarvon fire, February 2022 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 7,925 ha in total · 6 days
  8. 6,954 ha Carnarvon fire, 6 January 2022 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 6,847 ha in total · 6 days
  9. 6,809 ha Carnarvon fire, 6 January 2022 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 19,491 ha in total · 8 days
  10. 41,900 ha Upper Gascoyne fire, 5 January 2022 0.9% of the municipality · 80,518 ha in total · 13 days
  11. 9,369 ha Carnarvon fire, November 2019 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 9,353 ha in total · 5 days
  12. 7,924 ha Carnarvon fire, September 2018 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 7,934 ha in total · 2 days
  13. 5,253 ha Carnarvon fire, January 2018 where it started 0.1% of the municipality · 5,268 ha in total · 7 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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