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Wildfires in Maranoa

Maranoa, Australia, has had 43 large fires recorded by GWIS since 2016: 641,905 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 11% 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 23 Very low 29° · 43 % · 40 km/h
  2. Sat 24 Very low 27° · 64 % · 36 km/h
  3. Sun 25 Very low 30° · 51 % · 42 km/h
  4. Mon 26 Very low 32° · 47 % · 49 km/h
  5. Tue 27 Very low 30° · 48 % · 39 km/h
  6. Wed 28 Very low 29° · 46 % · 31 km/h
  7. Thu 29 Very low 28° · 26 % · 46 km/h
  8. Fri 30 Very low 23° · 59 % · 41 km/h
  9. Sat 31 Very low 25° · 69 % · 34 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

641,905
hectares burned
11 %
of its area
43
fires
59,037
km²

How many times has Maranoa burned?

Maranoa has burned 43 times since 2016, in 10 years: 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021, 2023, 2024, 2025 and 2026. The most recent: Maranoa fire, October 2026, with 5,319 hectares inside the municipality.

  1. 3× 16
  2. 4× 17
  3. 4× 18
  4. 4× 19
  5. 4× 20
  6. 2× 21
  7.   22
  8. 5× 23
  9. 6× 24
  10. 9× 25
  11. 2× 26
43
fires
10
years with fire
641,905
cumulative ha
5 Oct 2026
most recent

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 Maranoa

  1. 5,319 ha Maranoa fire, October 2026 where it started 0.1% of the municipality · 5,364 ha in total · 10 days
  2. 5,127 ha Maranoa fire, September 2026 where it started 0.1% of the municipality · 5,159 ha in total · 14 days
  3. 41 ha Central Highlands (Qld) fire, 11 November 2025 0.0% of the municipality · 25,136 ha in total · 3 days
  4. 7,169 ha Maranoa fire, November 2025 where it started 0.1% of the municipality · 7,153 ha in total · 7 days
  5. 8,278 ha Maranoa fire, 21 October 2025 where it started 0.1% of the municipality · 8,290 ha in total · 9 days
  6. 8,371 ha Maranoa fire, 4 October 2025 where it started 0.1% of the municipality · 8,420 ha in total · 8 days
  7. 17,529 ha Maranoa fire, 1 October 2025 where it started 0.3% of the municipality · 17,602 ha in total · 11 days
  8. 9,578 ha Maranoa fire, 29 September 2025 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 9,554 ha in total · 10 days
  9. 48,823 ha Maranoa fire, 23 September 2025 where it started 0.8% of the municipality · 48,943 ha in total · 19 days
  10. 9,979 ha Maranoa fire, 21 September 2025 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 10,022 ha in total · 20 days
  11. 6,236 ha Maranoa fire, July 2025 where it started 0.1% of the municipality · 6,507 ha in total · 4 days
  12. 6,279 ha Maranoa fire, October 2024 where it started 0.1% of the municipality · 6,210 ha in total · 6 days
  13. 746 ha Murweh fire, 17 October 2024 0.0% of the municipality · 9,056 ha in total · 10 days
  14. 7,614 ha Maranoa fire, 15 September 2024 where it started 0.1% of the municipality · 7,649 ha in total · 10 days
  15. 52,605 ha Maranoa fire, 6 September 2024 where it started 0.9% of the municipality · 52,730 ha in total · 20 days
  16. 26,217 ha Murweh fire, September 2024 0.4% of the municipality · 122,823 ha in total · 30 days
  17. 8,809 ha Maranoa fire, August 2024 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 8,843 ha in total · 10 days
  18. 10,876 ha Maranoa fire, October 2023 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 10,906 ha in total · 17 days
  19. 8,150 ha Maranoa fire, 20 September 2023 where it started 0.1% of the municipality · 8,188 ha in total · 6 days
  20. 15,872 ha Maranoa fire, 17 September 2023 where it started 0.3% of the municipality · 21,361 ha in total · 32 days
  21. 105,319 ha Central Highlands (Qld) fire, 8 September 2023 1.8% of the municipality · 338,949 ha in total · 58 days
  22. 7,541 ha Maranoa fire, August 2023 where it started 0.1% of the municipality · 7,564 ha in total · 6 days
  23. 12,571 ha Maranoa fire, 13 October 2021 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 20,116 ha in total · 12 days
  24. 8,953 ha Maranoa fire, 13 October 2021 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 9,010 ha in total · 10 days
  25. 3,943 ha Central Highlands (Qld) fire, November 2020 0.1% of the municipality · 21,781 ha in total · 21 days
  26. 10,201 ha Maranoa fire, November 2020 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 15,321 ha in total · 17 days
  27. 12,362 ha Murweh fire, October 2020 0.2% of the municipality · 17,200 ha in total · 11 days
  28. 18,088 ha Maranoa fire, October 2020 where it started 0.3% of the municipality · 18,138 ha in total · 13 days
  29. 10,256 ha Central Highlands (Qld) fire, 8 February 2019 0.2% of the municipality · 46,922 ha in total · 22 days
  30. 4,222 ha Maranoa fire, 16 January 2019 where it started 0.1% of the municipality · 8,651 ha in total · 17 days
  31. 5,818 ha Maranoa fire, 16 January 2019 where it started 0.1% of the municipality · 5,852 ha in total · 13 days
  32. 304 ha Central Highlands (Qld) fire, January 2019 0.0% of the municipality · 6,240 ha in total · 15 days
  33. 13,357 ha Maranoa fire, 22 December 2018 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 14,759 ha in total · 17 days
  34. 12,342 ha Maranoa fire, 18 December 2018 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 14,622 ha in total · 21 days
  35. 11,178 ha Maranoa fire, 17 December 2018 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 20,515 ha in total · 22 days
  36. 3,118 ha Murweh fire, August 2018 0.0% of the municipality · 25,887 ha in total · 10 days
  37. 8,988 ha Maranoa fire, December 2017 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 10,435 ha in total · 10 days
  38. 1,751 ha Central Highlands (Qld) fire, October 2017 0.0% of the municipality · 13,802 ha in total · 11 days
  39. 7,736 ha Maranoa fire, 27 September 2017 where it started 0.1% of the municipality · 7,771 ha in total · 3 days
  40. 105,540 ha Maranoa fire, 2 September 2017 where it started 1.8% of the municipality · 107,409 ha in total · 29 days
  41. 3,360 ha Maranoa fire, December 2016 where it started 0.1% of the municipality · 5,073 ha in total · 4 days
  42. 3,313 ha Central Highlands (Qld) fire, November 2016 0.1% of the municipality · 5,604 ha in total · 7 days
  43. 8,025 ha Maranoa fire, November 2016 where it started 0.1% of the municipality · 15,641 ha in total · 24 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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