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Wildfires in Goondiwindi

Goondiwindi, Australia, has had 10 large fires recorded by GWIS since 2020: 74,001 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 3.8% of its area. Fire danger today: low (FWI 11).

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. Thu 29 Low 26° · 26 % · 24 km/h
  2. Fri 30 Low 26° · 37 % · 33 km/h
  3. Sat 31 Low 26° · 53 % · 39 km/h
  4. Sun 1 Low 32° · 46 % · 37 km/h
  5. Mon 2 Moderate 31° · 23 % · 18 km/h
  6. Tue 3 Very low 27° · 53 % · 38 km/h
  7. Wed 4 Low 30° · 25 % · 37 km/h
  8. Thu 5 Moderate 27° · 30 % · 43 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

74,001
hectares burned
3.8 %
of its area
10
fires
19,318
km²

How many times has Goondiwindi burned?

Goondiwindi has burned 10 times since 2016, in 4 years: 2020, 2023, 2024 and 2025. The most recent: Goondiwindi fire, October 2025, with 5,843 hectares inside the municipality. Together they add up to 74,001 hectares burned inside the municipality, but the distinct burned area is 71,387 hectares, 3.7 % of its surface: part of it burned more than once.

  1.   16
  2.   17
  3.   18
  4.   19
  5. 1× 20
  6.   21
  7.   22
  8. 4× 23
  9. 3× 24
  10. 2× 25
  11.   26
10
fires
4
years with fire
74,001
cumulative ha
71,387
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 Goondiwindi

  1. 5,843 ha Goondiwindi fire, October 2025 where it started 0.3% of the municipality · 25,505 ha in total · 25 days
  2. 6,497 ha Goondiwindi fire, April 2025 where it started 0.3% of the municipality · 6,505 ha in total · 2 days
  3. 307 ha Toowoomba fire, August 2024 0.0% of the municipality · 5,036 ha in total · 4 days
  4. 4,970 ha Goondiwindi fire, April 2024 where it started 0.3% of the municipality · 5,089 ha in total · 2 days
  5. 9,333 ha Goondiwindi fire, January 2024 where it started 0.5% of the municipality · 9,285 ha in total · 4 days
  6. 18,387 ha Goondiwindi fire, December 2023 where it started 1.0% of the municipality · 24,145 ha in total · 11 days
  7. 8,485 ha Goondiwindi fire, 26 October 2023 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 11,137 ha in total · 5 days
  8. 17,921 ha Goondiwindi fire, 5 October 2023 where it started 0.9% of the municipality · 17,884 ha in total · 5 days
  9. 2,220 ha Western Downs fire, June 2023 0.1% of the municipality · 8,537 ha in total · 6 days
  10. 38 ha Toowoomba fire, September 2020 0.0% of the municipality · 5,904 ha in total · 7 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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