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Wildfires in McKinlay

McKinlay, Australia, has had 22 large fires recorded by GWIS since 2017: 196,663 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 4.8% of its area. Fire danger today: low (FWI 6).

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. Mon 26 Low 35° · 42 % · 36 km/h
  2. Tue 27 Low 35° · 44 % · 46 km/h
  3. Wed 28 Moderate 35° · 43 % · 19 km/h
  4. Thu 29 Moderate 36° · 37 % · 32 km/h
  5. Fri 30 Low 37° · 45 % · 30 km/h
  6. Sat 31 Low 34° · 49 % · 27 km/h
  7. Sun 1 Moderate 37° · 31 % · 34 km/h
  8. Mon 2 High 37° · 20 % · 29 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

196,663
hectares burned
4.8 %
of its area
22
fires
40,931
km²

How many times has McKinlay burned?

McKinlay has burned 22 times since 2016, in 7 years: 2017, 2019, 2020, 2023, 2024, 2025 and 2026. The most recent: McKinlay fire, October 2026, with 8,860 hectares inside the municipality. Together they add up to 196,663 hectares burned inside the municipality, but the distinct burned area is 188,792 hectares, 4.6 % of its surface: part of it burned more than once.

  1.   16
  2. 5× 17
  3.   18
  4. 1× 19
  5. 1× 20
  6.   21
  7.   22
  8. 4× 23
  9. 4× 24
  10. 6× 25
  11. 1× 26
22
fires
7
years with fire
196,663
cumulative ha
188,792
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 McKinlay

  1. 8,860 ha McKinlay fire, October 2026 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 8,872 ha in total · 6 days
  2. 690 ha Carpentaria fire, 4 November 2025 0.0% of the municipality · 25,119 ha in total · 11 days
  3. 4,433 ha McKinlay fire, November 2025 where it started 0.1% of the municipality · 5,066 ha in total · 6 days
  4. 6,830 ha McKinlay fire, October 2025 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 6,827 ha in total · 9 days
  5. 5,311 ha McKinlay fire, January 2025 where it started 0.1% of the municipality · 5,241 ha in total · 13 days
  6. 3,646 ha Cloncurry fire, 14 January 2025 0.1% of the municipality · 9,073 ha in total · 12 days
  7. 10,324 ha Winton fire, January 2025 0.2% of the municipality · 21,274 ha in total · 20 days
  8. 4 ha Carpentaria fire, December 2024 0.0% of the municipality · 6,319 ha in total · 9 days
  9. 25,736 ha McKinlay fire, November 2024 where it started 0.6% of the municipality · 25,739 ha in total · 16 days
  10. 4,474 ha Croydon fire, 20 October 2024 0.1% of the municipality · 124,080 ha in total · 33 days
  11. 40,430 ha McKinlay fire, October 2024 where it started 1.0% of the municipality · 180,216 ha in total · 16 days
  12. 5,922 ha McKinlay fire, 24 December 2023 where it started 0.1% of the municipality · 5,925 ha in total · 8 days
  13. 27,791 ha McKinlay fire, 9 December 2023 where it started 0.7% of the municipality · 27,812 ha in total · 24 days
  14. 5,402 ha McKinlay fire, 5 December 2023 where it started 0.1% of the municipality · 5,412 ha in total · 5 days
  15. 29,986 ha Carpentaria fire, 23 October 2023 0.7% of the municipality · 83,797 ha in total · 18 days
  16. 462 ha Cloncurry fire, 11 November 2020 0.0% of the municipality · 5,192 ha in total · 9 days
  17. 6,295 ha McKinlay fire, December 2019 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 15,462 ha in total · 8 days
  18. 137 ha Croydon fire, 5 December 2017 0.0% of the municipality · 8,964 ha in total · 22 days
  19. 1,597 ha Carpentaria fire, 17 November 2017 0.0% of the municipality · 21,477 ha in total · 5 days
  20. 5,251 ha Richmond fire, November 2017 0.1% of the municipality · 7,482 ha in total · 8 days
  21. 1,497 ha Croydon fire, 5 November 2017 0.0% of the municipality · 8,223 ha in total · 4 days
  22. 1,585 ha Carpentaria fire, October 2017 0.0% of the municipality · 10,060 ha in total · 13 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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