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Wildfires in Livingstone

Livingstone, Australia, has had 31 large fires recorded by GWIS since 2016: 551,375 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 47% of its area. Fire danger today: very low (FWI 0).

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. Fri 30 Very low 27° · 51 % · 40 km/h
  2. Sat 31 Very low 26° · 74 % · 25 km/h
  3. Sun 1 Very low 30° · 48 % · 30 km/h
  4. Mon 2 Very low 30° · 57 % · 28 km/h
  5. Tue 3 Very low 30° · 60 % · 34 km/h
  6. Wed 4 Very low 32° · 55 % · 38 km/h
  7. Thu 5 Low 34° · 33 % · 34 km/h
  8. Fri 6 Low 34° · 37 % · 32 km/h
  9. Sat 7 Low 32° · 53 % · 32 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

551,375
hectares burned
47 %
of its area
31
fires
11,817
km²

How many times has Livingstone burned?

Livingstone has burned 31 times since 2016, in 9 years: 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2021, 2023, 2024, 2025 and 2026. The most recent: Livingstone fire, 24 August 2026, with 4,619 hectares inside the municipality. Together they add up to 551,375 hectares burned inside the municipality, but the distinct burned area is 311,636 hectares, 26 % of its surface: part of it burned more than once.

  1. 2× 16
  2. 3× 17
  3. 2× 18
  4. 8× 19
  5.   20
  6. 4× 21
  7.   22
  8. 4× 23
  9. 2× 24
  10. 4× 25
  11. 2× 26
31
fires
9
years with fire
551,375
cumulative ha
311,636
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 Livingstone

  1. 4,619 ha Livingstone fire, 24 August 2026 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 5,056 ha in total · 5 days
  2. 7,231 ha Livingstone fire, 19 August 2026 where it started 0.6% of the municipality · 7,193 ha in total · 23 days
  3. 5,133 ha Livingstone fire, December 2025 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 5,101 ha in total · 13 days
  4. 1,498 ha Central Highlands (Qld) fire, 30 November 2025 0.1% of the municipality · 19,658 ha in total · 11 days
  5. 5,301 ha Livingstone fire, November 2025 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 5,295 ha in total · 9 days
  6. 107,411 ha Livingstone fire, September 2025 where it started 9.1% of the municipality · 107,042 ha in total · 34 days
  7. 6,151 ha Livingstone fire, October 2024 where it started 0.5% of the municipality · 6,124 ha in total · 16 days
  8. 8,139 ha Livingstone fire, June 2024 where it started 0.7% of the municipality · 8,114 ha in total · 15 days
  9. 8,760 ha Livingstone fire, December 2023 where it started 0.7% of the municipality · 8,775 ha in total · 6 days
  10. 8,510 ha Livingstone fire, 19 September 2023 where it started 0.7% of the municipality · 8,475 ha in total · 7 days
  11. 10,056 ha Livingstone fire, 19 September 2023 where it started 0.8% of the municipality · 10,000 ha in total · 9 days
  12. 8,025 ha Livingstone fire, May 2023 where it started 0.7% of the municipality · 7,988 ha in total · 2 days
  13. 10,282 ha Livingstone fire, November 2021 where it started 0.9% of the municipality · 10,229 ha in total · 8 days
  14. 5,433 ha Livingstone fire, 12 October 2021 where it started 0.5% of the municipality · 5,406 ha in total · 6 days
  15. 22,885 ha Livingstone fire, 5 October 2021 where it started 1.9% of the municipality · 22,799 ha in total · 13 days
  16. 20,991 ha Livingstone fire, September 2021 where it started 1.8% of the municipality · 20,918 ha in total · 14 days
  17. 6,932 ha Livingstone fire, December 2019 where it started 0.6% of the municipality · 6,948 ha in total · 13 days
  18. 27,158 ha Livingstone fire, 19 November 2019 where it started 2.3% of the municipality · 27,044 ha in total · 37 days
  19. 15,178 ha Livingstone fire, 7 November 2019 where it started 1.3% of the municipality · 15,067 ha in total · 12 days
  20. 23,518 ha Livingstone fire, 9 September 2019 where it started 2.0% of the municipality · 24,158 ha in total · 39 days
  21. 282 ha Isaac fire, September 2019 0.0% of the municipality · 7,774 ha in total · 10 days
  22. 12,762 ha Livingstone fire, 3 September 2019 where it started 1.1% of the municipality · 12,722 ha in total · 23 days
  23. 5,175 ha Livingstone fire, 20 August 2019 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 5,158 ha in total · 11 days
  24. 42,417 ha Livingstone fire, 10 August 2019 where it started 3.6% of the municipality · 42,277 ha in total · 35 days
  25. 5,242 ha Livingstone fire, October 2018 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 5,326 ha in total · 7 days
  26. 5,198 ha Isaac fire, 22 October 2018 0.4% of the municipality · 7,470 ha in total · 8 days
  27. 12,600 ha Livingstone fire, September 2017 where it started 1.1% of the municipality · 12,532 ha in total · 5 days
  28. 112,370 ha Livingstone fire, 19 August 2017 where it started 9.5% of the municipality · 111,933 ha in total · 51 days
  29. 20,427 ha Livingstone fire, 19 August 2017 where it started 1.7% of the municipality · 20,457 ha in total · 8 days
  30. 16,192 ha Livingstone fire, November 2016 where it started 1.4% of the municipality · 16,098 ha in total · 34 days
  31. 5,501 ha Livingstone fire, July 2016 where it started 0.5% of the municipality · 5,471 ha in total · 4 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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