Wildfires in Douglas
Douglas, Australia, has had 5 large fires recorded by GWIS since 2017: 18,147 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 7.4% 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- Fri 23 Very low 28° · 80 % · 20 km/h
- Sat 24 Very low 28° · 67 % · 23 km/h
- Sun 25 Very low 27° · 70 % · 34 km/h
- Mon 26 Very low 28° · 64 % · 34 km/h
- Tue 27 Very low 28° · 66 % · 36 km/h
- Wed 28 Very low 27° · 75 % · 36 km/h
- Thu 29 Very low 26° · 81 % · 39 km/h
- Fri 30 Very low 27° · 74 % · 46 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
- 18,147
- hectares burned
- 7.4 %
- of its area
- 5
- fires
- 2,442
- km²
Hectares per year
Fires that entered Douglas
- 5,216 ha Douglas fire, November 2025 where it started 2.1% of the municipality · 8,464 ha in total · 6 days
- 3,332 ha Cook fire, 12 October 2023 1.4% of the municipality · 75,637 ha in total · 25 days
- 6,726 ha Douglas fire, October 2021 where it started 2.8% of the municipality · 7,566 ha in total · 22 days
- 611 ha Douglas fire, September 2021 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 8,201 ha in total · 11 days
- 2,262 ha Cook fire, 6 October 2017 0.9% of the municipality · 16,537 ha in total · 10 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).