Wildfires in Mount Isa

Name: Mount Isa
Address: AU

Mount Isa, Australia, has had 93 large fires recorded by GWIS since 2016: 1,417,244 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 32% of its area. Fire danger today: low (FWI 10).

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

Fri 23 Low 30° · 46 % · 31 km/h
Sat 24 Low 32° · 43 % · 27 km/h
Sun 25 Moderate 33° · 46 % · 39 km/h
Mon 26 Very low 32° · 54 % · 36 km/h
Tue 27 Very low 33° · 51 % · 26 km/h
Wed 28 Low 34° · 44 % · 48 km/h
Thu 29 Very low 34° · 45 % · 52 km/h
Fri 30 Very low 32° · 53 % · 48 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.

Since 2016

1,417,244
hectares burned: 32 %
of its area: 93
fires: 44,002
km²

Hectares per year

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Fires that entered Mount Isa

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).

Fire danger, today and the coming days

The municipality and its fires

Since 2016

Hectares per year

Fires that entered Mount Isa

Where this data comes from