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Wildfires in Narrabri

Narrabri, Australia, has had 8 large fires recorded by GWIS since 2016: 141,096 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 11% 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
  1. Wed 28 Moderate 25° · 24 % · 39 km/h
  2. Thu 29 Low 25° · 26 % · 26 km/h
  3. Fri 30 Moderate 26° · 34 % · 37 km/h
  4. Sat 31 Very low 25° · 58 % · 49 km/h
  5. Sun 1 Very low 30° · 31 % · 34 km/h
  6. Mon 2 Low 29° · 31 % · 42 km/h
  7. Tue 3 Very low 29° · 47 % · 46 km/h
  8. Wed 4 Low 30° · 26 % · 29 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

141,096
hectares burned
11 %
of its area
8
fires
13,064
km²

How many times has Narrabri burned?

Narrabri has burned 8 times since 2016, in 5 years: 2016, 2018, 2019, 2023 and 2025. The most recent: Warrumbungle fire, February 2025, with 444 hectares inside the municipality.

  1. 1× 16
  2.   17
  3. 1× 18
  4. 1× 19
  5.   20
  6.   21
  7.   22
  8. 4× 23
  9.   24
  10. 1× 25
  11.   26
8
fires
5
years with fire
141,096
cumulative ha
26 Feb 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 Narrabri

  1. 444 ha Warrumbungle fire, February 2025 0.0% of the municipality · 5,710 ha in total · 5 days
  2. 59,286 ha Narrabri fire, 16 December 2023 where it started 4.5% of the municipality · 58,910 ha in total · 5 days
  3. 10,482 ha Narrabri fire, 9 December 2023 where it started 0.8% of the municipality · 10,407 ha in total · 7 days
  4. 7,642 ha Narrabri fire, 8 December 2023 where it started 0.6% of the municipality · 7,590 ha in total · 3 days
  5. 6,372 ha Narrabri fire, February 2023 where it started 0.5% of the municipality · 6,342 ha in total · 8 days
  6. 11,268 ha Narrabri fire, October 2019 where it started 0.9% of the municipality · 24,949 ha in total · 17 days
  7. 45,268 ha Narrabri fire, January 2018 where it started 3.5% of the municipality · 67,269 ha in total · 8 days
  8. 332 ha Warrumbungle fire, January 2016 0.0% of the municipality · 8,065 ha in total · 8 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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