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Wildfires in Litchfield

Litchfield, Australia, has had 16 large fires recorded by GWIS since 2016: 65,793 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 23% of its area. Fire danger today: very low (FWI 1).

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 35° · 55 % · 33 km/h
  2. Mon 26 Very low 35° · 54 % · 21 km/h
  3. Tue 27 Very low 34° · 65 % · 30 km/h
  4. Wed 28 Very low 32° · 66 % · 35 km/h
  5. Thu 29 Very low 33° · 64 % · 27 km/h
  6. Fri 30 Very low 33° · 57 % · 27 km/h
  7. Sat 31 Very low 34° · 54 % · 33 km/h
  8. Sun 1 Very low 34° · 63 % · 30 km/h
  9. Mon 2 Very low 33° · 80 % · 30 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

65,793
hectares burned
23 %
of its area
16
fires
2,921
km²

How many times has Litchfield burned?

Litchfield has burned 16 times since 2016, in 10 years: 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020, 2022, 2023, 2024, 2025 and 2026. The most recent: Coomalie fire, August 2026, with 1,151 hectares inside the municipality. Together they add up to 65,793 hectares burned inside the municipality, but the distinct burned area is 56,524 hectares, 19 % of its surface: part of it burned more than once.

  1. 1× 16
  2. 1× 17
  3. 1× 18
  4. 1× 19
  5. 1× 20
  6.   21
  7. 1× 22
  8. 1× 23
  9. 1× 24
  10. 2× 25
  11. 6× 26
16
fires
10
years with fire
65,793
cumulative ha
56,524
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 Litchfield

  1. 1,151 ha Coomalie fire, August 2026 0.4% of the municipality · 5,384 ha in total · 6 days
  2. 123 ha Unincorporated NT fire, 2 August 2026 0.0% of the municipality · 5,808 ha in total · 6 days
  3. 2,761 ha Litchfield fire, 18 July 2026 where it started 1.0% of the municipality · 6,908 ha in total · 9 days
  4. 5,285 ha Litchfield fire, 3 July 2026 where it started 1.8% of the municipality · 5,410 ha in total · 9 days
  5. 7,115 ha Litchfield fire, June 2026 where it started 2.4% of the municipality · 7,066 ha in total · 17 days
  6. 8,808 ha Litchfield fire, May 2026 where it started 3.0% of the municipality · 8,768 ha in total · 3 days
  7. 9,244 ha Litchfield fire, August 2025 where it started 3.2% of the municipality · 9,195 ha in total · 20 days
  8. 44 ha Unincorporated NT fire, 27 June 2025 0.0% of the municipality · 7,012 ha in total · 7 days
  9. 19 ha Unincorporated NT fire, October 2024 0.0% of the municipality · 5,484 ha in total · 8 days
  10. 7,546 ha Litchfield fire, August 2023 where it started 2.6% of the municipality · 7,502 ha in total · 14 days
  11. 108 ha Coomalie fire, August 2022 0.0% of the municipality · 5,069 ha in total · 4 days
  12. 7,042 ha Litchfield fire, September 2020 where it started 2.4% of the municipality · 6,999 ha in total · 5 days
  13. 2,302 ha Coomalie fire, June 2019 0.8% of the municipality · 6,015 ha in total · 14 days
  14. 3 ha Unincorporated NT fire, 18 August 2018 0.0% of the municipality · 5,987 ha in total · 8 days
  15. 6,064 ha Litchfield fire, September 2017 where it started 2.1% of the municipality · 6,029 ha in total · 22 days
  16. 8,180 ha Litchfield fire, August 2016 where it started 2.8% of the municipality · 8,125 ha in total · 18 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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