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Wildfires in Cloncurry

Cloncurry, Australia, has had 62 large fires recorded by GWIS since 2016: 926,198 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 19% of its area. Fire danger today: low (FWI 9).

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 Moderate 35° · 43 % · 23 km/h
  2. Tue 27 Low 31° · 51 % · 40 km/h
  3. Wed 28 Moderate 33° · 45 % · 22 km/h
  4. Thu 29 Low 34° · 42 % · 30 km/h
  5. Fri 30 Very low 33° · 47 % · 34 km/h
  6. Sat 31 Low 33° · 43 % · 24 km/h
  7. Sun 1 High 34° · 24 % · 26 km/h
  8. Mon 2 High 37° · 15 % · 37 km/h
  9. Tue 3 High 40° · 15 % · 33 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

926,198
hectares burned
19 %
of its area
62
fires
48,258
km²

How many times has Cloncurry burned?

Cloncurry has burned 62 times since 2016, in 11 years: 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023, 2024, 2025 and 2026. The most recent: Cloncurry fire, 21 October 2026, with 7,495 hectares inside the municipality.

  1. 2× 16
  2. 5× 17
  3. 2× 18
  4. 2× 19
  5. 3× 20
  6. 3× 21
  7. 2× 22
  8. 13× 23
  9. 11× 24
  10. 13× 25
  11. 6× 26
62
fires
11
years with fire
926,198
cumulative ha
21 Oct 2026
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 Cloncurry

  1. 7,495 ha Cloncurry fire, 21 October 2026 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 7,443 ha in total · 6 days
  2. 6,186 ha Cloncurry fire, 21 October 2026 where it started 0.1% of the municipality · 7,005 ha in total · 7 days
  3. 10,164 ha Cloncurry fire, 15 October 2026 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 10,048 ha in total · 5 days
  4. 9,051 ha Cloncurry fire, 15 October 2026 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 8,962 ha in total · 6 days
  5. 7,481 ha Cloncurry fire, 14 October 2026 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 7,487 ha in total · 8 days
  6. 5,899 ha Cloncurry fire, January 2026 where it started 0.1% of the municipality · 5,840 ha in total · 4 days
  7. 4,994 ha Cloncurry fire, December 2025 where it started 0.1% of the municipality · 7,398 ha in total · 6 days
  8. 3,089 ha Cloncurry fire, November 2025 where it started 0.1% of the municipality · 6,316 ha in total · 4 days
  9. 5,241 ha Cloncurry fire, 26 October 2025 where it started 0.1% of the municipality · 5,253 ha in total · 7 days
  10. 10,589 ha Cloncurry fire, 14 October 2025 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 10,476 ha in total · 8 days
  11. 5,303 ha Cloncurry fire, April 2025 where it started 0.1% of the municipality · 5,262 ha in total · 7 days
  12. 5,142 ha Cloncurry fire, 24 January 2025 where it started 0.1% of the municipality · 5,117 ha in total · 6 days
  13. 16,313 ha Cloncurry fire, 16 January 2025 where it started 0.3% of the municipality · 16,149 ha in total · 10 days
  14. 5,776 ha Cloncurry fire, 14 January 2025 where it started 0.1% of the municipality · 5,720 ha in total · 6 days
  15. 5,230 ha Cloncurry fire, 14 January 2025 where it started 0.1% of the municipality · 9,073 ha in total · 12 days
  16. 5,627 ha Cloncurry fire, 12 January 2025 where it started 0.1% of the municipality · 5,607 ha in total · 9 days
  17. 11,101 ha Cloncurry fire, 10 January 2025 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 11,107 ha in total · 11 days
  18. 5,958 ha Cloncurry fire, 9 January 2025 where it started 0.1% of the municipality · 5,959 ha in total · 7 days
  19. 6,821 ha Cloncurry fire, 3 January 2025 where it started 0.1% of the municipality · 14,744 ha in total · 8 days
  20. 14,973 ha Mount Isa fire, 24 December 2024 0.3% of the municipality · 32,968 ha in total · 18 days
  21. 6,575 ha Cloncurry fire, 13 November 2024 where it started 0.1% of the municipality · 7,179 ha in total · 4 days
  22. 16,408 ha Cloncurry fire, 10 November 2024 where it started 0.3% of the municipality · 17,842 ha in total · 6 days
  23. 64,464 ha Cloncurry fire, 24 October 2024 where it started 1.3% of the municipality · 64,015 ha in total · 9 days
  24. 38,346 ha Cloncurry fire, 19 October 2024 where it started 0.8% of the municipality · 43,576 ha in total · 6 days
  25. 141,546 ha McKinlay fire, October 2024 2.9% of the municipality · 180,216 ha in total · 16 days
  26. 15,924 ha Cloncurry fire, 7 October 2024 where it started 0.3% of the municipality · 15,721 ha in total · 6 days
  27. 9,406 ha Cloncurry fire, 22 August 2024 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 9,346 ha in total · 7 days
  28. 8,525 ha Cloncurry fire, 4 August 2024 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 8,432 ha in total · 5 days
  29. 5,450 ha Cloncurry fire, 3 March 2024 where it started 0.1% of the municipality · 5,383 ha in total · 5 days
  30. 6,706 ha Cloncurry fire, 1 March 2024 where it started 0.1% of the municipality · 6,616 ha in total · 7 days
  31. 17,850 ha Cloncurry fire, 30 December 2023 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 17,842 ha in total · 5 days
  32. 2,097 ha Mount Isa fire, 30 December 2023 0.0% of the municipality · 15,216 ha in total · 5 days
  33. 5,056 ha Cloncurry fire, 25 December 2023 where it started 0.1% of the municipality · 5,063 ha in total · 4 days
  34. 11,528 ha Cloncurry fire, 24 December 2023 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 11,409 ha in total · 5 days
  35. 3,872 ha Cloncurry fire, 24 December 2023 where it started 0.1% of the municipality · 11,803 ha in total · 6 days
  36. 252 ha Mount Isa fire, 20 December 2023 0.0% of the municipality · 125,964 ha in total · 19 days
  37. 148,408 ha Cloncurry fire, 20 December 2023 where it started 3.1% of the municipality · 148,754 ha in total · 17 days
  38. 63,687 ha Cloncurry fire, 17 December 2023 where it started 1.3% of the municipality · 112,672 ha in total · 20 days
  39. 13,118 ha Cloncurry fire, 15 December 2023 where it started 0.3% of the municipality · 13,159 ha in total · 10 days
  40. 19,429 ha Cloncurry fire, 15 December 2023 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 19,962 ha in total · 10 days
  41. 7,277 ha Cloncurry fire, 13 December 2023 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 7,303 ha in total · 3 days
  42. 3,377 ha Mount Isa fire, 16 October 2023 0.1% of the municipality · 38,754 ha in total · 17 days
  43. 36,140 ha Cloncurry fire, October 2023 where it started 0.8% of the municipality · 35,750 ha in total · 8 days
  44. 5,571 ha Cloncurry fire, December 2022 where it started 0.1% of the municipality · 5,533 ha in total · 6 days
  45. 6,544 ha Cloncurry fire, November 2022 where it started 0.1% of the municipality · 7,370 ha in total · 4 days
  46. 13,362 ha Cloncurry fire, 5 December 2021 where it started 0.3% of the municipality · 13,294 ha in total · 10 days
  47. 12,116 ha Cloncurry fire, 5 December 2021 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 23,272 ha in total · 10 days
  48. 8,289 ha Cloncurry fire, November 2021 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 8,233 ha in total · 7 days
  49. 5,228 ha Cloncurry fire, 19 November 2020 where it started 0.1% of the municipality · 5,187 ha in total · 5 days
  50. 5,125 ha Cloncurry fire, 16 November 2020 where it started 0.1% of the municipality · 5,078 ha in total · 8 days
  51. 4,786 ha Cloncurry fire, 11 November 2020 where it started 0.1% of the municipality · 5,192 ha in total · 9 days
  52. 9,323 ha McKinlay fire, December 2019 0.2% of the municipality · 15,462 ha in total · 8 days
  53. 5,323 ha Cloncurry fire, December 2019 where it started 0.1% of the municipality · 5,273 ha in total · 4 days
  54. 870 ha Burke fire, December 2018 0.0% of the municipality · 13,237 ha in total · 12 days
  55. 5,098 ha Cloncurry fire, October 2018 where it started 0.1% of the municipality · 5,097 ha in total · 5 days
  56. 6,813 ha Cloncurry fire, 12 December 2017 where it started 0.1% of the municipality · 6,761 ha in total · 6 days
  57. 10,557 ha Cloncurry fire, 7 December 2017 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 10,489 ha in total · 8 days
  58. 5,525 ha Cloncurry fire, 2 December 2017 where it started 0.1% of the municipality · 5,524 ha in total · 7 days
  59. 6,523 ha Cloncurry fire, October 2017 where it started 0.1% of the municipality · 6,530 ha in total · 7 days
  60. 5,494 ha Cloncurry fire, September 2017 where it started 0.1% of the municipality · 5,465 ha in total · 5 days
  61. 5,655 ha Cloncurry fire, 29 November 2016 where it started 0.1% of the municipality · 5,854 ha in total · 10 days
  62. 6,118 ha Cloncurry fire, 13 November 2016 where it started 0.1% of the municipality · 6,073 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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