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Wildfires in Katherine

Katherine, Australia: 51 fires since 2016 burned 840,159 hectares inside its boundaries, 1.1 times its area, because some ground burned more than once. Fire danger today: very low (FWI 3).

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 low 37° · 42 % · 30 km/h
  2. Mon 26 Very low 36° · 48 % · 23 km/h
  3. Tue 27 Very low 34° · 50 % · 30 km/h
  4. Wed 28 Very low 36° · 52 % · 26 km/h
  5. Thu 29 Low 35° · 47 % · 29 km/h
  6. Fri 30 Low 36° · 41 % · 28 km/h
  7. Sat 31 Low 37° · 43 % · 33 km/h
  8. Sun 1 Very low 37° · 42 % · 27 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

840,159
hectares burned
1.1×
times its area (some ground burned more than once)
51
fires
7,462
km²

How many times has Katherine burned?

Katherine has burned 51 times since 2016, in 10 years: 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2021, 2022, 2023, 2024, 2025 and 2026. The most recent: Katherine fire, September 2026, with 58,324 hectares inside the municipality.

  1. 5× 16
  2. 3× 17
  3. 3× 18
  4. 5× 19
  5.   20
  6. 8× 21
  7. 8× 22
  8. 1× 23
  9. 5× 24
  10. 11× 25
  11. 2× 26
51
fires
10
years with fire
840,159
cumulative ha
15 Sept 2026
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 Katherine

  1. 58,324 ha Katherine fire, September 2026 where it started 7.8% of the municipality · 57,978 ha in total · 6 days
  2. 10,422 ha Katherine fire, July 2026 where it started 1.4% of the municipality · 10,362 ha in total · 14 days
  3. 13,351 ha Katherine fire, November 2025 where it started 1.8% of the municipality · 13,285 ha in total · 9 days
  4. 34 ha Roper Gulf fire, 2 October 2025 0.0% of the municipality · 5,724 ha in total · 4 days
  5. 56 ha Victoria Daly fire, 29 September 2025 0.0% of the municipality · 63,294 ha in total · 14 days
  6. 265 ha Victoria Daly fire, 24 September 2025 0.0% of the municipality · 9,820 ha in total · 3 days
  7. 10,640 ha Katherine fire, September 2025 where it started 1.4% of the municipality · 14,532 ha in total · 5 days
  8. 7,794 ha Katherine fire, 14 August 2025 where it started 1.0% of the municipality · 7,742 ha in total · 8 days
  9. 137,381 ha Katherine fire, 7 August 2025 where it started 18% of the municipality · 138,097 ha in total · 22 days
  10. 29,062 ha Roper Gulf fire, 5 August 2025 3.9% of the municipality · 42,073 ha in total · 11 days
  11. 19,877 ha Katherine fire, July 2025 where it started 2.7% of the municipality · 21,189 ha in total · 13 days
  12. 5,716 ha Roper Gulf fire, 1 July 2025 0.8% of the municipality · 5,881 ha in total · 11 days
  13. 71 ha Victoria Daly fire, 11 June 2025 0.0% of the municipality · 7,118 ha in total · 6 days
  14. 32,907 ha Katherine fire, November 2024 where it started 4.4% of the municipality · 32,700 ha in total · 9 days
  15. 57,971 ha Katherine fire, 30 September 2024 where it started 7.8% of the municipality · 57,920 ha in total · 8 days
  16. 12,077 ha Katherine fire, 29 September 2024 where it started 1.6% of the municipality · 12,007 ha in total · 10 days
  17. 9,374 ha Victoria Daly fire, 19 September 2024 1.3% of the municipality · 9,538 ha in total · 13 days
  18. 2,855 ha Victoria Daly fire, 8 September 2024 0.4% of the municipality · 8,452 ha in total · 3 days
  19. 11,788 ha Roper Gulf fire, 17 May 2023 1.6% of the municipality · 39,338 ha in total · 7 days
  20. 91 ha Roper Gulf fire, 3 December 2022 0.0% of the municipality · 7,819 ha in total · 11 days
  21. 17,279 ha Katherine fire, 30 October 2022 where it started 2.3% of the municipality · 17,163 ha in total · 10 days
  22. 521 ha Victoria Daly fire, 22 October 2022 0.1% of the municipality · 19,384 ha in total · 12 days
  23. 6,134 ha Katherine fire, 21 October 2022 where it started 0.8% of the municipality · 6,088 ha in total · 3 days
  24. 6,238 ha Katherine fire, 8 October 2022 where it started 0.8% of the municipality · 6,200 ha in total · 7 days
  25. 18,017 ha Katherine fire, July 2022 where it started 2.4% of the municipality · 17,901 ha in total · 10 days
  26. 7,993 ha Katherine fire, May 2022 where it started 1.1% of the municipality · 7,946 ha in total · 10 days
  27. 57 ha Roper Gulf fire, 3 May 2022 0.0% of the municipality · 5,469 ha in total · 14 days
  28. 13,367 ha Katherine fire, 29 November 2021 where it started 1.8% of the municipality · 13,387 ha in total · 7 days
  29. 16,487 ha Katherine fire, 22 November 2021 where it started 2.2% of the municipality · 16,384 ha in total · 13 days
  30. 9,380 ha Katherine fire, 21 November 2021 where it started 1.3% of the municipality · 9,320 ha in total · 15 days
  31. 41,427 ha Katherine fire, 7 November 2021 where it started 5.6% of the municipality · 41,338 ha in total · 24 days
  32. 1,322 ha Roper Gulf fire, 25 October 2021 0.2% of the municipality · 14,667 ha in total · 5 days
  33. 6,826 ha Katherine fire, October 2021 where it started 0.9% of the municipality · 6,779 ha in total · 4 days
  34. 34 ha Victoria Daly fire, 16 September 2021 0.0% of the municipality · 62,700 ha in total · 13 days
  35. 18 ha Victoria Daly fire, 16 September 2021 0.0% of the municipality · 23,487 ha in total · 9 days
  36. 6,758 ha Katherine fire, December 2019 where it started 0.9% of the municipality · 6,710 ha in total · 2 days
  37. 33,773 ha Katherine fire, October 2019 where it started 4.5% of the municipality · 35,522 ha in total · 8 days
  38. 128 ha Victoria Daly fire, 4 August 2019 0.0% of the municipality · 45,322 ha in total · 17 days
  39. 24 ha Victoria Daly fire, 10 June 2019 0.0% of the municipality · 6,359 ha in total · 23 days
  40. 11,181 ha Katherine fire, June 2019 where it started 1.5% of the municipality · 11,120 ha in total · 9 days
  41. 6,099 ha Katherine fire, 25 August 2018 where it started 0.8% of the municipality · 6,402 ha in total · 2 days
  42. 99,847 ha Katherine fire, 15 August 2018 where it started 13% of the municipality · 111,224 ha in total · 11 days
  43. 56 ha Victoria Daly fire, 2 May 2018 0.0% of the municipality · 29,555 ha in total · 34 days
  44. 5,554 ha Roper Gulf fire, 7 November 2017 0.7% of the municipality · 12,532 ha in total · 4 days
  45. 55 ha Roper Gulf fire, 5 September 2017 0.0% of the municipality · 10,084 ha in total · 19 days
  46. 5,078 ha Roper Gulf fire, 11 July 2017 0.7% of the municipality · 6,658 ha in total · 7 days
  47. 6,555 ha Katherine fire, 30 November 2016 where it started 0.9% of the municipality · 6,536 ha in total · 11 days
  48. 6,588 ha Katherine fire, 15 November 2016 where it started 0.9% of the municipality · 6,548 ha in total · 7 days
  49. 16,015 ha Katherine fire, 14 November 2016 where it started 2.2% of the municipality · 22,877 ha in total · 7 days
  50. 77,290 ha Katherine fire, September 2016 where it started 10% of the municipality · 83,250 ha in total · 17 days
  51. 3 ha Roper Gulf fire, 20 August 2016 0.0% of the municipality · 7,781 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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