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Wildfires in Kowanyama

Kowanyama, Australia, has had 7 large fires recorded by GWIS since 2018: 33,249 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 13% of its area. Fire danger today: low (FWI 8).

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 3 Very low 36° · 46 % · 34 km/h
  2. Wed 4 Low 36° · 47 % · 35 km/h
  3. Thu 5 Moderate 37° · 36 % · 28 km/h
  4. Fri 6 High 37° · 31 % · 35 km/h
  5. Sat 7 High 37° · 31 % · 39 km/h
  6. Sun 8 High 36° · 40 % · 43 km/h
  7. Mon 9 Low 35° · 52 % · 41 km/h
  8. Tue 10 High 38° · 33 % · 31 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

33,249
hectares burned
13 %
of its area
7
fires
2,570
km²

How many times has Kowanyama burned?

Kowanyama has burned 7 times since 2016, in 5 years: 2018, 2021, 2024, 2025 and 2026. The most recent: Kowanyama fire, October 2026, with 6,359 hectares inside the municipality. Together they add up to 33,249 hectares burned inside the municipality, but the distinct burned area is 30,424 hectares, 12 % of its surface: part of it burned more than once.

  1.   16
  2.   17
  3. 3× 18
  4.   19
  5.   20
  6. 1× 21
  7.   22
  8.   23
  9. 1× 24
  10. 1× 25
  11. 1× 26
7
fires
5
years with fire
33,249
cumulative ha
30,424
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 Kowanyama

  1. 6,359 ha Kowanyama fire, October 2026 where it started 2.5% of the municipality · 6,323 ha in total · 7 days
  2. 717 ha Kowanyama fire, August 2025 where it started 0.3% of the municipality · 5,463 ha in total · 9 days
  3. 5,962 ha Kowanyama fire, July 2024 where it started 2.3% of the municipality · 5,928 ha in total · 10 days
  4. 5,330 ha Kowanyama fire, October 2021 where it started 2.1% of the municipality · 5,300 ha in total · 2 days
  5. 552 ha Carpentaria fire, 1 October 2018 0.2% of the municipality · 7,261 ha in total · 3 days
  6. 10,053 ha Carpentaria fire, 1 October 2018 3.9% of the municipality · 10,481 ha in total · 4 days
  7. 4,277 ha Kowanyama fire, June 2018 where it started 1.7% of the municipality · 5,817 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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