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Wildfires in Lockhart River

Lockhart River, Australia, has had 23 large fires recorded by GWIS since 2016: 273,199 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 76% 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. Fri 30 Very low 29° · 66 % · 50 km/h
  2. Sat 31 Low 30° · 54 % · 45 km/h
  3. Sun 1 Low 31° · 56 % · 36 km/h
  4. Mon 2 Moderate 31° · 50 % · 39 km/h
  5. Tue 3 Low 31° · 55 % · 39 km/h
  6. Wed 4 Moderate 30° · 52 % · 40 km/h
  7. Thu 5 Moderate 31° · 49 % · 37 km/h
  8. Fri 6 Moderate 31° · 50 % · 37 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

273,199
hectares burned
76 %
of its area
23
fires
3,598
km²

How many times has Lockhart River burned?

Lockhart River has burned 23 times since 2016, in 8 years: 2016, 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021, 2023, 2025 and 2026. The most recent: Lockhart River fire, August 2026, with 6,752 hectares inside the municipality. Together they add up to 273,199 hectares burned inside the municipality, but the distinct burned area is 136,320 hectares, 38 % of its surface: part of it burned more than once.

  1. 3× 16
  2.   17
  3. 3× 18
  4. 5× 19
  5. 4× 20
  6. 2× 21
  7.   22
  8. 1× 23
  9.   24
  10. 1× 25
  11. 4× 26
23
fires
8
years with fire
273,199
cumulative ha
136,320
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 Lockhart River

  1. 6,752 ha Lockhart River fire, August 2026 where it started 1.9% of the municipality · 7,260 ha in total · 26 days
  2. 0 ha Cook fire, 25 July 2026 0.0% of the municipality · 5,969 ha in total · 7 days
  3. 5,070 ha Lockhart River fire, July 2026 where it started 1.4% of the municipality · 5,044 ha in total · 10 days
  4. 66 ha Cook fire, 17 May 2026 0.0% of the municipality · 44,517 ha in total · 28 days
  5. 6,190 ha Cook fire, 17 October 2025 1.7% of the municipality · 17,731 ha in total · 26 days
  6. 78,349 ha Cook fire, 5 September 2023 22% of the municipality · 101,112 ha in total · 85 days
  7. 7,006 ha Lockhart River fire, October 2021 where it started 2.0% of the municipality · 7,098 ha in total · 16 days
  8. 5,482 ha Lockhart River fire, September 2021 where it started 1.5% of the municipality · 5,453 ha in total · 17 days
  9. 8,255 ha Lockhart River fire, October 2020 where it started 2.3% of the municipality · 8,207 ha in total · 21 days
  10. 675 ha Cook fire, 26 September 2020 0.2% of the municipality · 132,556 ha in total · 61 days
  11. 5,239 ha Lockhart River fire, 22 September 2020 where it started 1.5% of the municipality · 5,208 ha in total · 18 days
  12. 3,634 ha Lockhart River fire, 20 September 2020 where it started 1.0% of the municipality · 5,907 ha in total · 12 days
  13. 29,545 ha Lockhart River fire, November 2019 where it started 8.2% of the municipality · 29,369 ha in total · 34 days
  14. 10,119 ha Lockhart River fire, 31 October 2019 where it started 2.8% of the municipality · 10,224 ha in total · 30 days
  15. 6,071 ha Lockhart River fire, 3 October 2019 where it started 1.7% of the municipality · 6,036 ha in total · 12 days
  16. 6,442 ha Lockhart River fire, September 2019 where it started 1.8% of the municipality · 6,412 ha in total · 23 days
  17. 7,135 ha Lockhart River fire, July 2019 where it started 2.0% of the municipality · 7,099 ha in total · 12 days
  18. 4,479 ha Cook fire, 4 October 2018 1.2% of the municipality · 18,122 ha in total · 41 days
  19. 14,121 ha Lockhart River fire, 21 September 2018 where it started 3.9% of the municipality · 14,045 ha in total · 43 days
  20. 32,515 ha Lockhart River fire, 7 September 2018 where it started 9.0% of the municipality · 36,141 ha in total · 42 days
  21. 5,019 ha Lockhart River fire, November 2016 where it started 1.4% of the municipality · 5,602 ha in total · 12 days
  22. 29,379 ha Cook fire, 7 November 2016 8.2% of the municipality · 107,293 ha in total · 48 days
  23. 1,657 ha Cook fire, 27 October 2016 0.5% of the municipality · 15,049 ha in total · 19 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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