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Wildfires in Dandaragan

Dandaragan, Australia, has had 2 large fires recorded by GWIS since 2024: 62,567 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 9.3% of its area. Fire danger today: moderate (FWI 20).

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. Sat 24 Moderate 17° · 38 % · 49 km/h
  2. Sun 25 Moderate 19° · 27 % · 46 km/h
  3. Mon 26 Very low 18° · 46 % · 29 km/h
  4. Tue 27 Moderate 27° · 15 % · 49 km/h
  5. Wed 28 Low 22° · 36 % · 50 km/h
  6. Thu 29 Moderate 27° · 31 % · 53 km/h
  7. Fri 30 Moderate 23° · 42 % · 43 km/h
  8. Sat 31 Very low 21° · 67 % · 47 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

62,567
hectares burned
9.3 %
of its area
2
fires
6,735
km²

How many times has Dandaragan burned?

Dandaragan has burned 2 times since 2016, in 2 years: 2024 and 2025. The most recent: Dandaragan fire, December 2025, with 653 hectares inside the municipality.

  1.   16
  2.   17
  3.   18
  4.   19
  5.   20
  6.   21
  7.   22
  8.   23
  9. 1× 24
  10. 1× 25
  11.   26
2
fires
2
years with fire
62,567
cumulative ha
14 Dec 2025
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 Dandaragan

  1. 653 ha Dandaragan fire, December 2025 where it started 0.1% of the municipality · 6,858 ha in total · 10 days
  2. 61,913 ha Dandaragan fire, November 2024 where it started 9.2% of the municipality · 61,624 ha in total · 6 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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