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Wildfires in Coomalie

Coomalie, Australia, has had 40 large fires recorded by GWIS since 2016: 154,129 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 75% of its area. Fire danger today: very low (FWI 0).

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. Tue 27 Very low 35° · 52 % · 18 km/h
  2. Wed 28 Very low 32° · 64 % · 22 km/h
  3. Thu 29 Very low 34° · 52 % · 28 km/h
  4. Fri 30 Very low 34° · 51 % · 30 km/h
  5. Sat 31 Very low 34° · 53 % · 30 km/h
  6. Sun 1 Very low 35° · 53 % · 39 km/h
  7. Mon 2 Very low 34° · 54 % · 33 km/h
  8. Tue 3 Very low 35° · 54 % · 30 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

154,129
hectares burned
75 %
of its area
40
fires
2,068
km²

How many times has Coomalie burned?

Coomalie has burned 40 times since 2016, in 10 years: 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020, 2022, 2023, 2024, 2025 and 2026. The most recent: Coomalie fire, August 2026, with 4,262 hectares inside the municipality. Together they add up to 154,129 hectares burned inside the municipality, but the distinct burned area is 83,703 hectares, 40 % of its surface: part of it burned more than once.

  1. 3× 16
  2. 2× 17
  3. 6× 18
  4. 5× 19
  5. 2× 20
  6.   21
  7. 5× 22
  8. 2× 23
  9. 1× 24
  10. 3× 25
  11. 11× 26
40
fires
10
years with fire
154,129
cumulative ha
83,703
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 Coomalie

  1. 4,262 ha Coomalie fire, August 2026 where it started 2.1% of the municipality · 5,384 ha in total · 6 days
  2. 4,147 ha Litchfield fire, 18 July 2026 2.0% of the municipality · 6,908 ha in total · 9 days
  3. 1,599 ha Unincorporated NT fire, 18 July 2026 0.8% of the municipality · 12,168 ha in total · 10 days
  4. 5,834 ha Coomalie fire, July 2026 where it started 2.8% of the municipality · 33,864 ha in total · 23 days
  5. 112 ha Unincorporated NT fire, 25 June 2026 0.0% of the municipality · 6,300 ha in total · 5 days
  6. 6,423 ha Coomalie fire, 21 June 2026 where it started 3.1% of the municipality · 7,349 ha in total · 7 days
  7. 5,162 ha Coomalie fire, 11 June 2026 where it started 2.5% of the municipality · 5,126 ha in total · 3 days
  8. 5,735 ha Coomalie fire, 10 June 2026 where it started 2.8% of the municipality · 5,702 ha in total · 7 days
  9. 880 ha Unincorporated NT fire, 10 June 2026 0.4% of the municipality · 5,074 ha in total · 3 days
  10. 310 ha Unincorporated NT fire, 21 May 2026 0.2% of the municipality · 19,336 ha in total · 15 days
  11. 9,804 ha Coomalie fire, May 2026 where it started 4.7% of the municipality · 10,728 ha in total · 5 days
  12. 1,701 ha Victoria Daly fire, 31 July 2025 0.8% of the municipality · 15,805 ha in total · 16 days
  13. 794 ha Unincorporated NT fire, 27 June 2025 0.4% of the municipality · 7,012 ha in total · 7 days
  14. 3,477 ha Coomalie fire, June 2025 where it started 1.7% of the municipality · 5,288 ha in total · 13 days
  15. 2,082 ha Coomalie fire, July 2024 where it started 1.0% of the municipality · 6,820 ha in total · 8 days
  16. 57 ha Unincorporated NT fire, August 2023 0.0% of the municipality · 16,162 ha in total · 13 days
  17. 626 ha Unincorporated NT fire, 21 May 2023 0.3% of the municipality · 9,582 ha in total · 5 days
  18. 169 ha Victoria Daly fire, 24 August 2022 0.1% of the municipality · 7,548 ha in total · 6 days
  19. 3,895 ha Coomalie fire, August 2022 where it started 1.9% of the municipality · 5,069 ha in total · 4 days
  20. 1,505 ha Unincorporated NT fire, 17 August 2022 0.7% of the municipality · 33,243 ha in total · 19 days
  21. 5,618 ha Coomalie fire, July 2022 where it started 2.7% of the municipality · 7,022 ha in total · 3 days
  22. 17,430 ha Coomalie fire, June 2022 where it started 8.4% of the municipality · 25,663 ha in total · 15 days
  23. 799 ha Unincorporated NT fire, August 2020 0.4% of the municipality · 11,328 ha in total · 12 days
  24. 6,930 ha Coomalie fire, July 2020 where it started 3.4% of the municipality · 23,886 ha in total · 23 days
  25. 1,850 ha Unincorporated NT fire, 3 October 2019 0.9% of the municipality · 8,171 ha in total · 4 days
  26. 5,496 ha Coomalie fire, September 2019 where it started 2.7% of the municipality · 5,457 ha in total · 10 days
  27. 90 ha Unincorporated NT fire, 27 August 2019 0.0% of the municipality · 62,990 ha in total · 24 days
  28. 4,665 ha Coomalie fire, August 2019 where it started 2.3% of the municipality · 10,137 ha in total · 11 days
  29. 3,747 ha Coomalie fire, June 2019 where it started 1.8% of the municipality · 6,015 ha in total · 14 days
  30. 7,514 ha Unincorporated NT fire, 24 June 2018 3.6% of the municipality · 15,483 ha in total · 11 days
  31. 800 ha Coomalie fire, 26 May 2018 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 9,590 ha in total · 12 days
  32. 5,384 ha Coomalie fire, 15 May 2018 where it started 2.6% of the municipality · 5,353 ha in total · 9 days
  33. 6,686 ha Coomalie fire, 14 May 2018 where it started 3.2% of the municipality · 6,653 ha in total · 14 days
  34. 27 ha Unincorporated NT fire, 9 May 2018 0.0% of the municipality · 17,470 ha in total · 34 days
  35. 10,339 ha Unincorporated NT fire, 7 May 2018 5.0% of the municipality · 10,328 ha in total · 31 days
  36. 68 ha Unincorporated NT fire, 11 July 2017 0.0% of the municipality · 6,566 ha in total · 16 days
  37. 6,086 ha Coomalie fire, June 2017 where it started 2.9% of the municipality · 6,050 ha in total · 12 days
  38. 14 ha Unincorporated NT fire, 10 July 2016 0.0% of the municipality · 29,738 ha in total · 27 days
  39. 9,054 ha Coomalie fire, June 2016 where it started 4.4% of the municipality · 9,001 ha in total · 15 days
  40. 2,959 ha Victoria Daly fire, 10 June 2016 1.4% of the municipality · 10,253 ha in total · 11 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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