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Wildfires in Cessnock

Cessnock, Australia, has had 2 large fires recorded by GWIS since 2019: 53,949 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 27% of its area. Fire danger today: very low (FWI 1).

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 22° · 71 % · 36 km/h
  2. Sat 24 Very low 27° · 49 % · 31 km/h
  3. Sun 25 Very low 29° · 50 % · 56 km/h
  4. Mon 26 Very low 20° · 30 % · 44 km/h
  5. Tue 27 Very low 22° · 22 % · 41 km/h
  6. Wed 28 Low 23° · 29 % · 42 km/h
  7. Thu 29 Low 24° · 42 % · 47 km/h
  8. Fri 30 Low 26° · 43 % · 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

53,949
hectares burned
27 %
of its area
2
fires
1,971
km²

Hectares per year

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Fires that entered Cessnock

  1. 7,845 ha Cessnock fire, November 2019 where it started 4.0% of the municipality · 7,819 ha in total · 23 days
  2. 46,104 ha Lithgow fire, October 2019 23% of the municipality · 855,014 ha in total · 82 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).