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Wildfires in Esperance

Esperance, Australia, has had 25 large fires recorded by GWIS since 2016: 451,685 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 10% of its area. Fire danger today: low (FWI 7).

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. Fri 23 Low 17° · 48 % · 41 km/h
  2. Sat 24 Low 17° · 32 % · 50 km/h
  3. Sun 25 Very low 14° · 55 % · 32 km/h
  4. Mon 26 Very low 19° · 38 % · 36 km/h
  5. Tue 27 Moderate 21° · 37 % · 47 km/h
  6. Wed 28 Moderate 20° · 41 % · 54 km/h
  7. Thu 29 Moderate 24° · 38 % · 35 km/h
  8. Fri 30 Moderate 30° · 22 % · 32 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

451,685
hectares burned
10 %
of its area
25
fires
44,767
km²

Hectares per year

1617181920212223242526

Fires that entered Esperance

  1. 10,443 ha Esperance fire, October 2025 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 10,436 ha in total · 7 days
  2. 3,487 ha Esperance fire, February 2025 where it started 0.1% of the municipality · 5,024 ha in total · 2 days
  3. 5,716 ha Esperance fire, October 2023 where it started 0.1% of the municipality · 5,745 ha in total · 18 days
  4. 8,223 ha Esperance fire, November 2021 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 8,278 ha in total · 13 days
  5. 700 ha Lake Grace fire, 8 February 2020 0.0% of the municipality · 7,241 ha in total · 3 days
  6. 1,216 ha Dundas fire, January 2020 0.0% of the municipality · 19,888 ha in total · 15 days
  7. 12,746 ha Esperance fire, 26 January 2020 where it started 0.3% of the municipality · 12,818 ha in total · 16 days
  8. 6,403 ha Esperance fire, 24 January 2020 where it started 0.1% of the municipality · 6,449 ha in total · 10 days
  9. 2,415 ha Dundas fire, 31 December 2019 0.0% of the municipality · 47,961 ha in total · 13 days
  10. 6,423 ha Dundas fire, 29 December 2019 0.1% of the municipality · 17,618 ha in total · 15 days
  11. 54,882 ha Dundas fire, 29 December 2019 1.2% of the municipality · 77,546 ha in total · 16 days
  12. 16,188 ha Esperance fire, 29 December 2019 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 16,200 ha in total · 16 days
  13. 23,840 ha Esperance fire, 26 December 2019 where it started 0.5% of the municipality · 23,999 ha in total · 13 days
  14. 5,841 ha Dundas fire, 20 December 2019 0.1% of the municipality · 120,445 ha in total · 20 days
  15. 13,108 ha Esperance fire, 19 December 2019 where it started 0.3% of the municipality · 13,064 ha in total · 4 days
  16. 91,679 ha Esperance fire, 3 December 2019 where it started 2.0% of the municipality · 95,329 ha in total · 37 days
  17. 4,958 ha Esperance fire, March 2019 where it started 0.1% of the municipality · 5,067 ha in total · 4 days
  18. 26,678 ha Esperance fire, 23 February 2019 where it started 0.6% of the municipality · 26,754 ha in total · 10 days
  19. 1 ha Dundas fire, 20 February 2019 0.0% of the municipality · 12,150 ha in total · 4 days
  20. 15,882 ha Esperance fire, 20 February 2019 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 25,627 ha in total · 8 days
  21. 54,557 ha Esperance fire, 25 January 2019 where it started 1.2% of the municipality · 54,711 ha in total · 30 days
  22. 28,997 ha Esperance fire, 13 January 2019 where it started 0.6% of the municipality · 29,057 ha in total · 22 days
  23. 26,085 ha Esperance fire, 26 December 2017 where it started 0.6% of the municipality · 26,089 ha in total · 20 days
  24. 24,183 ha Esperance fire, 23 December 2017 where it started 0.5% of the municipality · 24,195 ha in total · 23 days
  25. 7,035 ha Esperance fire, January 2016 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 7,023 ha in total · 9 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).