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Wildfires in Clarence Valley

Clarence Valley, Australia, has had 18 large fires recorded by GWIS since 2016: 601,056 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 57% 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. Fri 13 Low 31° · 44 % · 31 km/h
  2. Sat 14 Low 32° · 41 % · 28 km/h
  3. Sun 15 Moderate 34° · 37 % · 36 km/h
  4. Mon 16 Very low 26° · 67 % · 29 km/h
  5. Tue 17 Very low 26° · 40 % · 40 km/h
  6. Wed 18 Very low 26° · 44 % · 36 km/h
  7. Thu 19 Low 27° · 44 % · 40 km/h
  8. Fri 20 Moderate 25° · 43 % · 35 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. Put this widget on your website

Smoke today in Clarence Valley: hourly forecast

The municipality and its fires

Since 2016

601,056
hectares burned
57 %
of its area
18
fires
10,465
km²

How many times has Clarence Valley burned?

Clarence Valley has burned 18 times since 2016, in 5 years: 2016, 2018, 2019, 2023 and 2026. The most recent: Clarence Valley fire, 1 September 2026, with 5,219 hectares inside the municipality. Together they add up to 601,056 hectares burned inside the municipality, but the distinct burned area is 545,646 hectares, 52 % of its surface: part of it burned more than once.

  1. 1× 16
  2.   17
  3. 3× 18
  4. 11× 19
  5.   20
  6.   21
  7.   22
  8. 1× 23
  9.   24
  10.   25
  11. 2× 26
18
fires
5
years with fire
601,056
cumulative ha
545,646
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 Clarence Valley

  1. 5,219 ha Clarence Valley fire, 1 September 2026 where it started 0.5% of the municipality · 5,195 ha in total · 10 days
  2. 6,104 ha Clarence Valley fire, 1 September 2026 where it started 0.6% of the municipality · 12,889 ha in total · 20 days
  3. 5,148 ha Clarence Valley fire, October 2023 where it started 0.5% of the municipality · 5,123 ha in total · 5 days
  4. 59,154 ha Richmond Valley fire, November 2019 5.6% of the municipality · 150,448 ha in total · 33 days
  5. 8,876 ha Clarence Valley fire, 27 October 2019 where it started 0.8% of the municipality · 9,207 ha in total · 8 days
  6. 87,657 ha Clarence Valley fire, 22 October 2019 where it started 8.4% of the municipality · 175,358 ha in total · 70 days
  7. 257,877 ha Clarence Valley fire, 17 October 2019 where it started 25% of the municipality · 341,820 ha in total · 66 days
  8. 8,412 ha Richmond Valley fire, October 2019 0.8% of the municipality · 26,618 ha in total · 25 days
  9. 7,990 ha Glen Innes Severn fire, September 2019 0.8% of the municipality · 42,779 ha in total · 25 days
  10. 11,271 ha Clarence Valley fire, 6 September 2019 where it started 1.1% of the municipality · 11,284 ha in total · 7 days
  11. 13,981 ha Tenterfield fire, September 2019 1.3% of the municipality · 70,910 ha in total · 24 days
  12. 40,481 ha Clarence Valley fire, 2 September 2019 where it started 3.9% of the municipality · 38,875 ha in total · 40 days
  13. 54,115 ha Armidale fire, 2 September 2019 5.2% of the municipality · 111,490 ha in total · 16 days
  14. 8,865 ha Clarence Valley fire, August 2019 where it started 0.8% of the municipality · 8,815 ha in total · 14 days
  15. 5,558 ha Clarence Valley fire, 16 August 2018 where it started 0.5% of the municipality · 5,531 ha in total · 9 days
  16. 5,964 ha Clarence Valley fire, 15 August 2018 where it started 0.6% of the municipality · 6,953 ha in total · 10 days
  17. 8,060 ha Richmond Valley fire, July 2018 0.8% of the municipality · 8,995 ha in total · 23 days
  18. 6,322 ha Clarence Valley fire, September 2016 where it started 0.6% of the municipality · 6,298 ha in total · 16 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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