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Wildfires in Murray

Murray, Australia, has had 10 large fires recorded by GWIS since 2016: 24,870 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 15% of its area. Fire danger today: very low (FWI 2).

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. Fri 23 Very low 16° · 52 % · 48 km/h
  2. Sat 24 Very low 15° · 45 % · 46 km/h
  3. Sun 25 Very low 16° · 44 % · 39 km/h
  4. Mon 26 Very low 19° · 35 % · 37 km/h
  5. Tue 27 Low 24° · 27 % · 48 km/h
  6. Wed 28 Moderate 25° · 26 % · 52 km/h
  7. Thu 29 Moderate 26° · 32 % · 46 km/h
  8. Fri 30 Low 21° · 50 % · 35 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

24,870
hectares burned
15 %
of its area
10
fires
1,708
km²

Hectares per year

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Fires that entered Murray

  1. 5,217 ha Murray fire, December 2025 where it started 3.0% of the municipality · 5,201 ha in total · 13 days
  2. 2,588 ha Boddington fire, September 2024 1.5% of the municipality · 8,491 ha in total · 7 days
  3. 917 ha Waroona fire, March 2024 0.5% of the municipality · 5,049 ha in total · 4 days
  4. 37 ha Boddington fire, May 2022 0.0% of the municipality · 11,286 ha in total · 8 days
  5. 7,757 ha Murray fire, May 2020 where it started 4.5% of the municipality · 7,743 ha in total · 3 days
  6. 465 ha Murray fire, May 2019 where it started 0.3% of the municipality · 7,079 ha in total · 8 days
  7. 5,546 ha Murray fire, October 2017 where it started 3.2% of the municipality · 5,534 ha in total · 6 days
  8. 844 ha Waroona fire, October 2016 0.5% of the municipality · 5,559 ha in total · 10 days
  9. 198 ha Boddington fire, 18 October 2016 0.1% of the municipality · 6,911 ha in total · 6 days
  10. 1,301 ha Boddington fire, 11 October 2016 0.8% of the municipality · 8,651 ha in total · 3 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).