Wildfires in Croydon

Name: Croydon
Address: AU

Croydon, Australia, has had 116 large fires recorded by GWIS since 2016: 1,770,065 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 60% of its area. Fire danger today: very low (FWI 2).

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

Fri 23 Low 33° · 41 % · 30 km/h
Sat 24 Very low 32° · 49 % · 26 km/h
Sun 25 Low 34° · 43 % · 35 km/h
Mon 26 Moderate 35° · 40 % · 40 km/h
Tue 27 Very low 35° · 48 % · 33 km/h
Wed 28 Low 36° · 40 % · 32 km/h
Thu 29 Moderate 38° · 28 % · 33 km/h
Fri 30 Moderate 37° · 28 % · 37 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.

Since 2016

1,770,065
hectares burned: 60 %
of its area: 116
fires: 29,666
km²

Hectares per year

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Fires that entered Croydon

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).

Fire danger, today and the coming days

The municipality and its fires

Since 2016

Hectares per year

Fires that entered Croydon

Where this data comes from