Wildfires in MacDonnell

Name: MacDonnell
Address: AU

MacDonnell, Australia, has had 175 large fires recorded by GWIS since 2016: 2,139,187 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 7.9% of its area. Fire danger today: high (FWI 26).

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

Fri 23 Moderate 33° · 33 % · 21 km/h
Sat 24 High 35° · 22 % · 33 km/h
Sun 25 High 28° · 37 % · 44 km/h
Mon 26 High 29° · 28 % · 46 km/h
Tue 27 Low 32° · 27 % · 54 km/h
Wed 28 Very low 32° · 44 % · 47 km/h
Thu 29 Very low 28° · 65 % · 49 km/h
Fri 30 Very low 30° · 49 % · 38 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.

Since 2016

2,139,187
hectares burned: 7.9 %
of its area: 175
fires: 270,004
km²

Hectares per year

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Fires that entered MacDonnell

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).

Fire danger, today and the coming days

The municipality and its fires

Since 2016

Hectares per year

Fires that entered MacDonnell

Where this data comes from