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Wildfires in Mapoon

Mapoon, Australia, has had 7 large fires recorded by GWIS since 2018: 26,135 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 48% of its area. Fire danger today: moderate (FWI 18).

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 23 Moderate 34° · 36 % · 31 km/h
  2. Sat 24 Moderate 35° · 39 % · 31 km/h
  3. Sun 25 High 35° · 35 % · 33 km/h
  4. Mon 26 High 35° · 35 % · 35 km/h
  5. Tue 27 High 36° · 36 % · 38 km/h
  6. Wed 28 High 35° · 33 % · 46 km/h
  7. Thu 29 High 36° · 32 % · 50 km/h
  8. Fri 30 High 36° · 38 % · 45 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

26,135
hectares burned
48 %
of its area
7
fires
541
km²

Hectares per year

1617181920212223242526

Fires that entered Mapoon

  1. 365 ha Cook fire, 22 September 2026 0.7% of the municipality · 8,407 ha in total · 15 days
  2. 397 ha Cook fire, 24 July 2026 0.7% of the municipality · 5,370 ha in total · 11 days
  3. 3,532 ha Cook fire, 23 July 2026 6.5% of the municipality · 11,480 ha in total · 13 days
  4. 4,622 ha Cook fire, 9 September 2023 8.6% of the municipality · 39,189 ha in total · 47 days
  5. 5,400 ha Mapoon fire, October 2019 where it started 10.0% of the municipality · 5,369 ha in total · 16 days
  6. 7,517 ha Mapoon fire, September 2018 where it started 14% of the municipality · 7,474 ha in total · 10 days
  7. 4,302 ha Cook fire, 20 September 2018 8.0% of the municipality · 47,313 ha in total · 48 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).