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Wildfires in Kempsey

Kempsey, Australia, has had 4 large fires recorded by GWIS since 2017: 170,343 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 50% of its area. Fire danger today: very low (FWI 5).

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 Very low 25° · 33 % · 36 km/h
  2. Fri 30 Very low 25° · 46 % · 34 km/h
  3. Sat 31 Low 25° · 48 % · 34 km/h
  4. Sun 1 Very low 29° · 45 % · 34 km/h
  5. Mon 2 Very low 26° · 56 % · 33 km/h
  6. Tue 3 Very low 27° · 62 % · 38 km/h
  7. Wed 4 Low 31° · 37 % · 39 km/h
  8. Thu 5 Moderate 26° · 20 % · 52 km/h
  9. Fri 6 Low 25° · 41 % · 44 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

170,343
hectares burned
50 %
of its area
4
fires
3,389
km²

How many times has Kempsey burned?

Kempsey has burned 4 times since 2016, in 3 years: 2017, 2019 and 2023. The most recent: Kempsey fire, October 2023, with 26,767 hectares inside the municipality. Together they add up to 170,343 hectares burned inside the municipality, but the distinct burned area is 144,260 hectares, 43 % of its surface: part of it burned more than once.

  1.   16
  2. 1× 17
  3.   18
  4. 2× 19
  5.   20
  6.   21
  7.   22
  8. 1× 23
  9.   24
  10.   25
  11.   26
4
fires
3
years with fire
170,343
cumulative ha
144,260
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 Kempsey

  1. 26,767 ha Kempsey fire, October 2023 where it started 7.9% of the municipality · 26,658 ha in total · 11 days
  2. 17,937 ha Nambucca Valley fire, November 2019 5.3% of the municipality · 55,232 ha in total · 33 days
  3. 125,201 ha Armidale fire, October 2019 37% of the municipality · 627,676 ha in total · 91 days
  4. 439 ha Armidale fire, August 2017 0.1% of the municipality · 5,205 ha in total · 5 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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