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Wildfires in Karratha

Karratha, Australia, has had 11 large fires recorded by GWIS since 2017: 55,060 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 3.6% of its area. Fire danger today: very extreme (FWI 72).

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. Sun 25 Very extreme 36° · 12 % · 45 km/h
  2. Mon 26 Very extreme 35° · 12 % · 50 km/h
  3. Tue 27 Very extreme 33° · 9 % · 49 km/h
  4. Wed 28 Extreme 28° · 33 % · 50 km/h
  5. Thu 29 Extreme 31° · 31 % · 52 km/h
  6. Fri 30 Extreme 35° · 19 % · 46 km/h
  7. Sat 31 Extreme 36° · 19 % · 52 km/h
  8. Sun 1 Extreme 37° · 14 % · 48 km/h
  9. Mon 2 Extreme 38° · 12 % · 42 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

55,060
hectares burned
3.6 %
of its area
11
fires
15,313
km²

How many times has Karratha burned?

Karratha has burned 11 times since 2016, in 6 years: 2017, 2018, 2020, 2021, 2022 and 2023. The most recent: Karratha fire, 7 November 2023, with 7,423 hectares inside the municipality.

  1.   16
  2. 1× 17
  3. 1× 18
  4.   19
  5. 1× 20
  6. 2× 21
  7. 2× 22
  8. 4× 23
  9.   24
  10.   25
  11.   26
11
fires
6
years with fire
55,060
cumulative ha
7 Nov 2023
most recent

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 Karratha

  1. 7,423 ha Karratha fire, 7 November 2023 where it started 0.5% of the municipality · 10,635 ha in total · 9 days
  2. 5,832 ha Karratha fire, 7 November 2023 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 5,798 ha in total · 3 days
  3. 7,072 ha Karratha fire, October 2023 where it started 0.5% of the municipality · 7,036 ha in total · 4 days
  4. 5,129 ha Karratha fire, January 2023 where it started 0.3% of the municipality · 5,127 ha in total · 6 days
  5. 5,217 ha Karratha fire, 29 December 2022 where it started 0.3% of the municipality · 5,189 ha in total · 3 days
  6. 5,619 ha Karratha fire, 29 December 2022 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 5,589 ha in total · 4 days
  7. 5,450 ha Karratha fire, 18 December 2021 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 5,427 ha in total · 4 days
  8. 9,105 ha Karratha fire, 8 December 2021 where it started 0.6% of the municipality · 9,065 ha in total · 8 days
  9. 3,474 ha Port Hedland fire, May 2020 0.2% of the municipality · 7,157 ha in total · 5 days
  10. 24 ha Ashburton fire, 27 December 2018 0.0% of the municipality · 7,588 ha in total · 7 days
  11. 715 ha Ashburton fire, 6 November 2017 0.0% of the municipality · 18,221 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).

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