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Wildfires in Meekatharra

Meekatharra, Australia, has had 5 large fires recorded by GWIS since 2016: 62,501 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 0.6% of its area. Fire danger today: high (FWI 38).

Only fires of 5,000 ha or more get an entry: smaller ones are not in the lists or the totals on this page.

These figures leave out one burn that was probably not a wildfire (agricultural, pasture, reed-bed or prescribed). They appear in the lists, marked.

Fire danger, today and the coming days

FWI computed from the Open-Meteo forecast
  1. Tue 10 Extreme 38° · 12 % · 59 km/h
  2. Wed 11 High 30° · 32 % · 61 km/h
  3. Thu 12 High 32° · 17 % · 39 km/h
  4. Fri 13 High 35° · 13 % · 35 km/h
  5. Sat 14 Extreme 37° · 12 % · 55 km/h
  6. Sun 15 Very extreme 35° · 8 % · 52 km/h
  7. Mon 16 Extreme 37° · 11 % · 66 km/h
  8. Tue 17 Very extreme 33° · 15 % · 59 km/h
  9. Wed 18 Extreme 33° · 20 % · 44 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. Put this widget on your website

Smoke today in Meekatharra: hourly forecast

The municipality and its fires

Since 2016

62,501
hectares burned
0.6 %
of its area
5
fires
100,503
km²

How many times has Meekatharra burned?

Meekatharra has burned 5 times since 2016, in 3 years: 2016, 2017 and 2019. The most recent: Meekatharra fire, November 2019, with 8,813 hectares inside the municipality.

  1. 1× 16
  2. 2× 17
  3.   18
  4. 2× 19
  5.   20
  6.   21
  7.   22
  8.   23
  9.   24
  10.   25
  11.   26
5
fires
3
years with fire
62,501
cumulative ha
12 Nov 2019
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 Meekatharra

  1. 8,813 ha Meekatharra fire, November 2019 where it started 0.1% of the municipality · 8,833 ha in total · 11 days
  2. 14,662 ha Meekatharra fire, October 2019 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 14,511 ha in total · 6 days
  3. 10,143 ha Meekatharra fire, 15 November 2017 where it started 0.1% of the municipality · 10,133 ha in total · 5 days
  4. 8,903 ha Meekatharra fire, 14 November 2017 where it started 0.1% of the municipality · 8,912 ha in total · 7 days
  5. 19,981 ha Meekatharra fire, November 2016 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 20,014 ha in total · 12 days
  6. 157 ha East Pilbara fire, 6 November 2016 0.0% of the municipality · 18,681 ha in total · 10 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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