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Wildfires in Gladstone

Gladstone, Australia, has had 16 large fires recorded by GWIS since 2016: 119,751 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 11% 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
  1. Fri 23 Very low 24° · 74 % · 26 km/h
  2. Sat 24 Very low 24° · 83 % · 31 km/h
  3. Sun 25 Very low 24° · 84 % · 31 km/h
  4. Mon 26 Very low 24° · 88 % · 34 km/h
  5. Tue 27 Very low 25° · 86 % · 32 km/h
  6. Wed 28 Very low 25° · 88 % · 32 km/h
  7. Thu 29 Very low 25° · 74 % · 55 km/h
  8. Fri 30 Very low 24° · 65 % · 54 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

119,751
hectares burned
11 %
of its area
16
fires
10,542
km²

Hectares per year

1617181920212223242526

Fires that entered Gladstone

  1. 9,490 ha Gladstone fire, April 2026 where it started 0.9% of the municipality · 9,522 ha in total · 6 days
  2. 1,546 ha North Burnett fire, 19 September 2025 0.2% of the municipality · 5,891 ha in total · 28 days
  3. 5,425 ha Gladstone fire, 6 December 2023 where it started 0.5% of the municipality · 5,382 ha in total · 5 days
  4. 7,448 ha Gladstone fire, 5 December 2023 where it started 0.7% of the municipality · 7,384 ha in total · 11 days
  5. 15,273 ha Gladstone fire, 26 October 2023 where it started 1.4% of the municipality · 15,153 ha in total · 7 days
  6. 5,238 ha Gladstone fire, 15 October 2023 where it started 0.5% of the municipality · 5,197 ha in total · 5 days
  7. 15,500 ha Gladstone fire, 14 October 2023 where it started 1.5% of the municipality · 30,143 ha in total · 19 days
  8. 6,520 ha Gladstone fire, October 2021 where it started 0.6% of the municipality · 6,460 ha in total · 10 days
  9. 6,863 ha Gladstone fire, November 2020 where it started 0.6% of the municipality · 6,813 ha in total · 13 days
  10. 11,582 ha Gladstone fire, 15 December 2019 where it started 1.1% of the municipality · 11,484 ha in total · 7 days
  11. 5,370 ha Gladstone fire, 7 December 2019 where it started 0.5% of the municipality · 5,337 ha in total · 19 days
  12. 7,576 ha Gladstone fire, November 2019 where it started 0.7% of the municipality · 8,404 ha in total · 31 days
  13. 5,377 ha Gladstone fire, October 2018 where it started 0.5% of the municipality · 5,356 ha in total · 9 days
  14. 5,094 ha Gladstone fire, August 2017 where it started 0.5% of the municipality · 5,049 ha in total · 10 days
  15. 4,877 ha Gladstone fire, 28 November 2016 where it started 0.5% of the municipality · 7,958 ha in total · 11 days
  16. 6,573 ha Gladstone fire, 14 November 2016 where it started 0.6% of the municipality · 6,537 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).