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Wildfires in Menzies

Menzies, Australia, has had 40 large fires recorded by GWIS since 2016: 383,849 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 3.1% of its area. Fire danger today: high (FWI 37).

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. Sat 31 High 35° · 14 % · 53 km/h
  2. Sun 1 High 31° · 19 % · 49 km/h
  3. Mon 2 High 30° · 21 % · 32 km/h
  4. Tue 3 Very high 32° · 16 % · 52 km/h
  5. Wed 4 Very high 28° · 24 % · 53 km/h
  6. Thu 5 High 32° · 12 % · 44 km/h
  7. Fri 6 Extreme 35° · 11 % · 70 km/h
  8. Sat 7 Extreme 37° · 14 % · 58 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

383,849
hectares burned
3.1 %
of its area
40
fires
124,762
km²

How many times has Menzies burned?

Menzies has burned 40 times since 2016, in 8 years: 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020, 2022, 2023 and 2025. The most recent: Menzies fire, January 2025, with 5,837 hectares inside the municipality.

  1. 5× 16
  2. 9× 17
  3. 1× 18
  4. 18× 19
  5. 3× 20
  6.   21
  7. 1× 22
  8. 2× 23
  9.   24
  10. 1× 25
  11.   26
40
fires
8
years with fire
383,849
cumulative ha
9 Jan 2025
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 Menzies

  1. 5,837 ha Menzies fire, January 2025 where it started 0.0% of the municipality · 5,778 ha in total · 2 days
  2. 5,197 ha Menzies fire, December 2023 where it started 0.0% of the municipality · 5,192 ha in total · 9 days
  3. 7,025 ha Menzies fire, November 2023 where it started 0.1% of the municipality · 7,104 ha in total · 8 days
  4. 6,010 ha Menzies fire, March 2022 where it started 0.0% of the municipality · 5,952 ha in total · 6 days
  5. 8,998 ha Menzies fire, 10 November 2020 where it started 0.1% of the municipality · 8,980 ha in total · 4 days
  6. 10,421 ha Menzies fire, 7 November 2020 where it started 0.1% of the municipality · 10,409 ha in total · 6 days
  7. 6,014 ha Menzies fire, 7 November 2020 where it started 0.0% of the municipality · 11,929 ha in total · 13 days
  8. 46,452 ha Menzies fire, December 2019 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 56,175 ha in total · 12 days
  9. 6,249 ha Menzies fire, 23 February 2019 where it started 0.0% of the municipality · 6,213 ha in total · 9 days
  10. 10,750 ha Menzies fire, 21 February 2019 where it started 0.1% of the municipality · 10,702 ha in total · 9 days
  11. 29,777 ha Menzies fire, 20 February 2019 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 29,664 ha in total · 13 days
  12. 2,763 ha Kalgoorlie-Boulder fire, 16 February 2019 0.0% of the municipality · 21,982 ha in total · 13 days
  13. 5,642 ha Menzies fire, 15 February 2019 where it started 0.0% of the municipality · 5,611 ha in total · 8 days
  14. 1,446 ha Laverton fire, 15 February 2019 0.0% of the municipality · 17,189 ha in total · 8 days
  15. 7,126 ha Menzies fire, 15 February 2019 where it started 0.1% of the municipality · 7,089 ha in total · 9 days
  16. 9,282 ha Menzies fire, 15 February 2019 where it started 0.1% of the municipality · 13,056 ha in total · 14 days
  17. 14,540 ha Menzies fire, 15 February 2019 where it started 0.1% of the municipality · 14,489 ha in total · 3 days
  18. 8,455 ha Menzies fire, 17 January 2019 where it started 0.1% of the municipality · 8,430 ha in total · 8 days
  19. 7,310 ha Menzies fire, 16 January 2019 where it started 0.1% of the municipality · 7,277 ha in total · 7 days
  20. 7,036 ha Menzies fire, 16 January 2019 where it started 0.1% of the municipality · 13,884 ha in total · 7 days
  21. 6,694 ha Menzies fire, 16 January 2019 where it started 0.0% of the municipality · 6,662 ha in total · 10 days
  22. 11,039 ha Menzies fire, 14 January 2019 where it started 0.1% of the municipality · 11,008 ha in total · 9 days
  23. 12,667 ha Menzies fire, 1 January 2019 where it started 0.1% of the municipality · 12,595 ha in total · 2 days
  24. 12,174 ha Menzies fire, 1 January 2019 where it started 0.1% of the municipality · 12,072 ha in total · 12 days
  25. 6,187 ha Menzies fire, 1 January 2019 where it started 0.0% of the municipality · 6,172 ha in total · 3 days
  26. 5,607 ha Menzies fire, December 2018 where it started 0.0% of the municipality · 5,582 ha in total · 4 days
  27. 21,868 ha Menzies fire, December 2017 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 23,035 ha in total · 7 days
  28. 14,690 ha Menzies fire, 27 November 2017 where it started 0.1% of the municipality · 14,675 ha in total · 3 days
  29. 6,142 ha Kalgoorlie-Boulder fire, 27 November 2017 0.0% of the municipality · 12,377 ha in total · 7 days
  30. 35 ha Laverton fire, 24 November 2017 0.0% of the municipality · 12,612 ha in total · 8 days
  31. 16,461 ha Menzies fire, 21 November 2017 where it started 0.1% of the municipality · 16,406 ha in total · 12 days
  32. 5,152 ha Menzies fire, 13 November 2017 where it started 0.0% of the municipality · 5,123 ha in total · 5 days
  33. 5,538 ha Menzies fire, 29 October 2017 where it started 0.0% of the municipality · 5,524 ha in total · 5 days
  34. 13,276 ha Menzies fire, 23 October 2017 where it started 0.1% of the municipality · 13,258 ha in total · 4 days
  35. 9,019 ha Menzies fire, 18 October 2017 where it started 0.1% of the municipality · 9,016 ha in total · 6 days
  36. 2,499 ha Kalgoorlie-Boulder fire, 3 December 2016 0.0% of the municipality · 7,210 ha in total · 10 days
  37. 10,250 ha Menzies fire, December 2016 where it started 0.1% of the municipality · 10,162 ha in total · 6 days
  38. 295 ha Kalgoorlie-Boulder fire, 1 December 2016 0.0% of the municipality · 6,479 ha in total · 8 days
  39. 6,331 ha Menzies fire, 29 November 2016 where it started 0.0% of the municipality · 6,326 ha in total · 10 days
  40. 11,598 ha Menzies fire, 29 November 2016 where it started 0.1% of the municipality · 11,585 ha in total · 6 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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