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Wildfires in Coolgardie

Coolgardie, Australia, has had 9 large fires recorded by GWIS since 2019: 98,700 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 3.2% of its area. Fire danger today: high (FWI 31).

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 High 23° · 21 % · 31 km/h
  2. Tue 27 High 24° · 17 % · 44 km/h
  3. Wed 28 High 26° · 21 % · 49 km/h
  4. Thu 29 High 26° · 37 % · 44 km/h
  5. Fri 30 High 31° · 15 % · 42 km/h
  6. Sat 31 High 32° · 11 % · 57 km/h
  7. Sun 1 Very high 29° · 19 % · 47 km/h
  8. Mon 2 High 26° · 20 % · 40 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

98,700
hectares burned
3.2 %
of its area
9
fires
30,446
km²

How many times has Coolgardie burned?

Coolgardie has burned 9 times since 2016, in 4 years: 2019, 2021, 2023 and 2024. The most recent: Coolgardie fire, December 2024, with 7,822 hectares inside the municipality.

  1.   16
  2.   17
  3.   18
  4. 6× 19
  5.   20
  6. 1× 21
  7.   22
  8. 1× 23
  9. 1× 24
  10.   25
  11.   26
9
fires
4
years with fire
98,700
cumulative ha
24 Dec 2024
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 Coolgardie

  1. 7,822 ha Coolgardie fire, December 2024 where it started 0.3% of the municipality · 7,829 ha in total · 11 days
  2. 7,132 ha Coolgardie fire, February 2023 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 7,110 ha in total · 1 day
  3. 0 ha Dundas fire, 21 December 2021 0.0% of the municipality · 10,245 ha in total · 35 days
  4. 14,073 ha Coolgardie fire, December 2019 where it started 0.5% of the municipality · 13,999 ha in total · 12 days
  5. 6,559 ha Dundas fire, 17 December 2019 0.2% of the municipality · 148,437 ha in total · 28 days
  6. 37 ha Yilgarn fire, February 2019 0.0% of the municipality · 7,657 ha in total · 14 days
  7. 39,304 ha Coolgardie fire, February 2019 where it started 1.3% of the municipality · 39,027 ha in total · 15 days
  8. 13,844 ha Coolgardie fire, 23 January 2019 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 13,730 ha in total · 15 days
  9. 9,930 ha Coolgardie fire, 15 January 2019 where it started 0.3% of the municipality · 9,938 ha in total · 8 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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