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Wildfires in Mid-Western

Mid-Western, Australia, has had 7 large fires recorded by GWIS since 2017: 109,126 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 12% of its area. Fire danger today: very low (FWI 3).

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 Very low 20° · 30 % · 44 km/h
  2. Tue 27 Very low 20° · 36 % · 38 km/h
  3. Wed 28 Low 18° · 36 % · 58 km/h
  4. Thu 29 Low 22° · 30 % · 32 km/h
  5. Fri 30 Moderate 24° · 31 % · 36 km/h
  6. Sat 31 Very low 20° · 66 % · 46 km/h
  7. Sun 1 Very low 24° · 42 % · 42 km/h
  8. Mon 2 Very low 23° · 40 % · 27 km/h
  9. Tue 3 Very low 23° · 41 % · 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.

The municipality and its fires

Since 2016

109,126
hectares burned
12 %
of its area
7
fires
8,776
km²

How many times has Mid-Western burned?

Mid-Western has burned 7 times since 2016, in 4 years: 2017, 2019, 2023 and 2025. The most recent: Upper Hunter fire, November 2025, with 371 hectares inside the municipality.

  1.   16
  2. 2× 17
  3.   18
  4. 3× 19
  5.   20
  6.   21
  7.   22
  8. 1× 23
  9.   24
  10. 1× 25
  11.   26
7
fires
4
years with fire
109,126
cumulative ha
27 Nov 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 Mid-Western

  1. 371 ha Upper Hunter fire, November 2025 0.0% of the municipality · 18,588 ha in total · 14 days
  2. 16,565 ha Mid-Western fire, March 2023 where it started 1.9% of the municipality · 19,221 ha in total · 16 days
  3. 14,355 ha Lithgow fire, December 2019 1.6% of the municipality · 22,878 ha in total · 32 days
  4. 5,393 ha Upper Hunter fire, November 2019 0.6% of the municipality · 17,487 ha in total · 26 days
  5. 64,783 ha Lithgow fire, October 2019 7.4% of the municipality · 855,014 ha in total · 82 days
  6. 5,526 ha Mid-Western fire, February 2017 where it started 0.6% of the municipality · 5,521 ha in total · 5 days
  7. 2,133 ha Warrumbungle fire, February 2017 0.2% of the municipality · 23,584 ha in total · 9 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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