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Wildfires in Napranum

Napranum, Australia, has had 42 large fires recorded by GWIS since 2016: 134,566 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 67% of its area. Fire danger today: low (FWI 7).

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 Moderate 36° · 36 % · 33 km/h
  2. Tue 27 Low 35° · 46 % · 33 km/h
  3. Wed 28 High 36° · 32 % · 34 km/h
  4. Thu 29 High 36° · 32 % · 35 km/h
  5. Fri 30 High 36° · 32 % · 43 km/h
  6. Sat 31 High 38° · 29 % · 34 km/h
  7. Sun 1 Moderate 37° · 36 % · 40 km/h
  8. Mon 2 Low 36° · 55 % · 39 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

134,566
hectares burned
67 %
of its area
42
fires
2,017
km²

How many times has Napranum burned?

Napranum has burned 42 times since 2016, in 10 years: 2016, 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023, 2024, 2025 and 2026. The most recent: Napranum fire, October 2026, with 6,893 hectares inside the municipality. Together they add up to 134,566 hectares burned inside the municipality, but the distinct burned area is 90,654 hectares, 45 % of its surface: part of it burned more than once.

  1. 4× 16
  2.   17
  3. 5× 18
  4. 7× 19
  5. 3× 20
  6. 1× 21
  7. 1× 22
  8. 5× 23
  9. 1× 24
  10. 1× 25
  11. 14× 26
42
fires
10
years with fire
134,566
cumulative ha
90,654
distinct ha

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 Napranum

  1. 6,893 ha Napranum fire, October 2026 where it started 3.4% of the municipality · 7,072 ha in total · 6 days
  2. 922 ha Napranum fire, September 2026 where it started 0.5% of the municipality · 5,061 ha in total · 8 days
  3. 3,274 ha Cook fire, 2 August 2026 1.6% of the municipality · 5,507 ha in total · 23 days
  4. 14 ha Cook fire, 23 July 2026 0.0% of the municipality · 11,480 ha in total · 17 days
  5. 4,705 ha Napranum fire, 23 July 2026 where it started 2.3% of the municipality · 6,732 ha in total · 12 days
  6. 1,547 ha Cook fire, 18 July 2026 0.8% of the municipality · 11,314 ha in total · 25 days
  7. 1,163 ha Cook fire, 17 July 2026 0.6% of the municipality · 49,808 ha in total · 31 days
  8. 533 ha Cook fire, 17 July 2026 0.3% of the municipality · 6,462 ha in total · 15 days
  9. 592 ha Cook fire, 17 July 2026 0.3% of the municipality · 12,724 ha in total · 19 days
  10. 72 ha Cook fire, 17 July 2026 0.0% of the municipality · 28,712 ha in total · 15 days
  11. 5,165 ha Napranum fire, 17 July 2026 where it started 2.6% of the municipality · 5,142 ha in total · 15 days
  12. 1,306 ha Cook fire, 9 July 2026 0.6% of the municipality · 17,156 ha in total · 13 days
  13. 3,849 ha Cook fire, 19 June 2026 1.9% of the municipality · 5,648 ha in total · 14 days
  14. 3,155 ha Napranum fire, June 2026 where it started 1.6% of the municipality · 5,632 ha in total · 3 days
  15. 5 ha Aurukun fire, 18 August 2025 0.0% of the municipality · 8,076 ha in total · 12 days
  16. 367 ha Cook fire, 1 October 2024 0.2% of the municipality · 5,232 ha in total · 18 days
  17. 5,185 ha Napranum fire, November 2023 where it started 2.6% of the municipality · 5,311 ha in total · 9 days
  18. 932 ha Napranum fire, September 2023 where it started 0.5% of the municipality · 13,387 ha in total · 17 days
  19. 31 ha Cook fire, 9 September 2023 0.0% of the municipality · 39,189 ha in total · 49 days
  20. 183 ha Aurukun fire, 22 August 2023 0.1% of the municipality · 11,298 ha in total · 23 days
  21. 1,104 ha Napranum fire, August 2023 where it started 0.6% of the municipality · 6,269 ha in total · 11 days
  22. 842 ha Aurukun fire, 3 September 2022 0.4% of the municipality · 7,873 ha in total · 17 days
  23. 5,187 ha Napranum fire, September 2021 where it started 2.6% of the municipality · 5,253 ha in total · 11 days
  24. 5,386 ha Napranum fire, 22 September 2020 where it started 2.7% of the municipality · 5,358 ha in total · 18 days
  25. 6,460 ha Napranum fire, 20 September 2020 where it started 3.2% of the municipality · 6,508 ha in total · 12 days
  26. 479 ha Aurukun fire, August 2020 0.2% of the municipality · 6,533 ha in total · 4 days
  27. 7,203 ha Napranum fire, 16 October 2019 where it started 3.6% of the municipality · 7,160 ha in total · 13 days
  28. 3,780 ha Napranum fire, 1 October 2019 where it started 1.9% of the municipality · 8,334 ha in total · 20 days
  29. 7,059 ha Napranum fire, September 2019 where it started 3.5% of the municipality · 7,650 ha in total · 11 days
  30. 1,980 ha Aurukun fire, September 2019 1.0% of the municipality · 14,604 ha in total · 14 days
  31. 5,281 ha Cook fire, 31 August 2019 2.6% of the municipality · 5,309 ha in total · 8 days
  32. 6,688 ha Cook fire, 24 August 2019 3.3% of the municipality · 13,151 ha in total · 29 days
  33. 462 ha Cook fire, 6 August 2019 0.2% of the municipality · 15,061 ha in total · 30 days
  34. 3,474 ha Cook fire, 28 October 2018 1.7% of the municipality · 5,387 ha in total · 14 days
  35. 6,726 ha Napranum fire, October 2018 where it started 3.3% of the municipality · 6,691 ha in total · 7 days
  36. 12,433 ha Napranum fire, 29 September 2018 where it started 6.2% of the municipality · 12,360 ha in total · 9 days
  37. 4,225 ha Napranum fire, 3 September 2018 where it started 2.1% of the municipality · 5,341 ha in total · 14 days
  38. 465 ha Cook fire, 1 September 2018 0.2% of the municipality · 5,580 ha in total · 8 days
  39. 5,731 ha Napranum fire, 12 October 2016 where it started 2.8% of the municipality · 6,329 ha in total · 14 days
  40. 3,000 ha Cook fire, 11 October 2016 1.5% of the municipality · 27,363 ha in total · 34 days
  41. 1,315 ha Napranum fire, 11 October 2016 where it started 0.6% of the municipality · 11,456 ha in total · 16 days
  42. 5,394 ha Napranum fire, August 2016 where it started 2.7% of the municipality · 5,384 ha in total · 7 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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