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Wildfires in Flinders (Qld)

Flinders (Qld), Australia, has had 41 large fires recorded by GWIS since 2016: 555,460 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 13% of its area. Fire danger today: low (FWI 10).

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. Mon 26 Very low 34° · 42 % · 36 km/h
  2. Tue 27 Low 34° · 34 % · 36 km/h
  3. Wed 28 Very low 34° · 37 % · 41 km/h
  4. Thu 29 Very low 34° · 42 % · 32 km/h
  5. Fri 30 Very low 32° · 48 % · 35 km/h
  6. Sat 31 Very low 31° · 49 % · 37 km/h
  7. Sun 1 Low 33° · 32 % · 30 km/h
  8. Mon 2 Moderate 33° · 32 % · 25 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

555,460
hectares burned
13 %
of its area
41
fires
41,432
km²

How many times has Flinders (Qld) burned?

Flinders (Qld) has burned 41 times since 2016, in 10 years: 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021, 2023, 2024, 2025 and 2026. The most recent: Flinders (Qld) fire, September 2026, with 10,501 hectares inside the municipality. Together they add up to 555,460 hectares burned inside the municipality, but the distinct burned area is 469,949 hectares, 11 % of its surface: part of it burned more than once.

  1. 1× 16
  2. 5× 17
  3. 2× 18
  4. 4× 19
  5. 5× 20
  6. 5× 21
  7.   22
  8. 6× 23
  9. 5× 24
  10. 7× 25
  11. 1× 26
41
fires
10
years with fire
555,460
cumulative ha
469,949
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 Flinders (Qld)

  1. 10,501 ha Flinders (Qld) fire, September 2026 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 10,414 ha in total · 6 days
  2. 1,418 ha Etheridge fire, 12 December 2025 0.0% of the municipality · 7,393 ha in total · 3 days
  3. 21,470 ha Flinders (Qld) fire, 25 November 2025 where it started 0.5% of the municipality · 21,476 ha in total · 20 days
  4. 10,555 ha Flinders (Qld) fire, 24 November 2025 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 10,570 ha in total · 20 days
  5. 3,336 ha Flinders (Qld) fire, 1 November 2025 where it started 0.1% of the municipality · 9,568 ha in total · 3 days
  6. 6,924 ha Flinders (Qld) fire, October 2025 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 6,946 ha in total · 7 days
  7. 2,800 ha Richmond fire, 26 October 2025 0.1% of the municipality · 6,119 ha in total · 13 days
  8. 1,525 ha Richmond fire, 25 October 2025 0.0% of the municipality · 5,400 ha in total · 9 days
  9. 5,005 ha Flinders (Qld) fire, 24 December 2024 where it started 0.1% of the municipality · 6,023 ha in total · 8 days
  10. 14,215 ha Flinders (Qld) fire, 24 December 2024 where it started 0.3% of the municipality · 14,210 ha in total · 18 days
  11. 58,426 ha Flinders (Qld) fire, 22 December 2024 where it started 1.4% of the municipality · 58,445 ha in total · 25 days
  12. 84,863 ha Charters Towers fire, 28 October 2024 2.0% of the municipality · 151,999 ha in total · 18 days
  13. 2,916 ha Charters Towers fire, 22 September 2024 0.1% of the municipality · 12,835 ha in total · 4 days
  14. 5,374 ha Flinders (Qld) fire, December 2023 where it started 0.1% of the municipality · 5,345 ha in total · 4 days
  15. 53,946 ha Charters Towers fire, 6 November 2023 1.3% of the municipality · 80,541 ha in total · 13 days
  16. 52,729 ha Flinders (Qld) fire, November 2023 where it started 1.3% of the municipality · 52,610 ha in total · 16 days
  17. 8,226 ha Flinders (Qld) fire, 30 October 2023 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 8,206 ha in total · 3 days
  18. 5,719 ha Flinders (Qld) fire, 24 October 2023 where it started 0.1% of the municipality · 5,708 ha in total · 3 days
  19. 30,692 ha Etheridge fire, October 2023 0.7% of the municipality · 69,459 ha in total · 19 days
  20. 5,168 ha Flinders (Qld) fire, 30 December 2021 where it started 0.1% of the municipality · 5,169 ha in total · 11 days
  21. 27,013 ha Flinders (Qld) fire, 10 December 2021 where it started 0.6% of the municipality · 27,023 ha in total · 15 days
  22. 66 ha Charters Towers fire, 10 December 2021 0.0% of the municipality · 7,776 ha in total · 13 days
  23. 6,023 ha Flinders (Qld) fire, October 2021 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 6,130 ha in total · 5 days
  24. 2,896 ha Richmond fire, October 2021 0.1% of the municipality · 15,159 ha in total · 7 days
  25. 7,384 ha Flinders (Qld) fire, 30 November 2020 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 7,386 ha in total · 18 days
  26. 6,852 ha Flinders (Qld) fire, 26 November 2020 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 7,085 ha in total · 9 days
  27. 1,895 ha Charters Towers fire, 13 November 2020 0.0% of the municipality · 60,178 ha in total · 13 days
  28. 5,337 ha Charters Towers fire, October 2020 0.1% of the municipality · 15,800 ha in total · 10 days
  29. 6,481 ha Flinders (Qld) fire, January 2020 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 6,619 ha in total · 9 days
  30. 25,488 ha Charters Towers fire, 27 December 2019 0.6% of the municipality · 49,380 ha in total · 19 days
  31. 16,789 ha Flinders (Qld) fire, December 2019 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 16,777 ha in total · 24 days
  32. 452 ha Barcaldine fire, December 2019 0.0% of the municipality · 20,746 ha in total · 4 days
  33. 532 ha Etheridge fire, 7 September 2019 0.0% of the municipality · 14,185 ha in total · 9 days
  34. 7,376 ha Flinders (Qld) fire, December 2018 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 14,321 ha in total · 33 days
  35. 6,070 ha Flinders (Qld) fire, October 2018 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 6,070 ha in total · 12 days
  36. 5,146 ha Richmond fire, 11 December 2017 0.1% of the municipality · 6,613 ha in total · 17 days
  37. 7,688 ha Flinders (Qld) fire, 7 December 2017 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 8,831 ha in total · 19 days
  38. 1,245 ha Charters Towers fire, 5 December 2017 0.0% of the municipality · 6,389 ha in total · 15 days
  39. 26,637 ha Flinders (Qld) fire, 5 December 2017 where it started 0.6% of the municipality · 49,361 ha in total · 30 days
  40. 8,248 ha Flinders (Qld) fire, September 2017 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 8,247 ha in total · 4 days
  41. 35 ha Charters Towers fire, December 2016 0.0% of the municipality · 6,125 ha in total · 8 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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