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Wildfires in Hope Vale

Hope Vale, Australia, has had 4 large fires recorded by GWIS since 2018: 17,086 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 15% of its area. Fire danger today: very low (FWI 2).

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. Tue 27 Low 28° · 64 % · 35 km/h
  2. Wed 28 Very low 28° · 69 % · 39 km/h
  3. Thu 29 Very low 28° · 71 % · 38 km/h
  4. Fri 30 Very low 28° · 72 % · 42 km/h
  5. Sat 31 Very low 28° · 71 % · 39 km/h
  6. Sun 1 Very low 28° · 74 % · 40 km/h
  7. Mon 2 Very low 28° · 68 % · 35 km/h
  8. Tue 3 Very low 28° · 67 % · 33 km/h
  9. Wed 4 Very low 28° · 68 % · 36 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

17,086
hectares burned
15 %
of its area
4
fires
1,119
km²

How many times has Hope Vale burned?

Hope Vale has burned 4 times since 2016, in 4 years: 2018, 2020, 2023 and 2025. The most recent: Hope Vale fire, November 2025, with 8,796 hectares inside the municipality. Together they add up to 17,086 hectares burned inside the municipality, but the distinct burned area is 15,994 hectares, 14 % of its surface: part of it burned more than once.

  1.   16
  2.   17
  3. 1× 18
  4.   19
  5. 1× 20
  6.   21
  7.   22
  8. 1× 23
  9.   24
  10. 1× 25
  11.   26
4
fires
4
years with fire
17,086
cumulative ha
15,994
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 Hope Vale

  1. 8,796 ha Hope Vale fire, November 2025 where it started 7.9% of the municipality · 9,444 ha in total · 12 days
  2. 1,487 ha Cook fire, 19 October 2023 1.3% of the municipality · 107,807 ha in total · 54 days
  3. 5,423 ha Hope Vale fire, November 2020 where it started 4.8% of the municipality · 5,601 ha in total · 14 days
  4. 1,380 ha Hope Vale fire, September 2018 where it started 1.2% of the municipality · 11,743 ha in total · 27 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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