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Wildfires in Queanbeyan-Palerang

Queanbeyan-Palerang, Australia, has had 6 large fires recorded by GWIS since 2019: 94,862 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 18% of its area. Fire danger today: moderate (FWI 12).

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. Thu 12 Very low 22° · 55 % · 26 km/h
  2. Fri 13 Moderate 26° · 40 % · 40 km/h
  3. Sat 14 Very low 23° · 58 % · 57 km/h
  4. Sun 15 Very low 17° · 80 % · 39 km/h
  5. Mon 16 Very low 14° · 54 % · 35 km/h
  6. Tue 17 Very low 20° · 44 % · 40 km/h
  7. Wed 18 Low 24° · 42 % · 37 km/h
  8. Thu 19 Low 23° · 42 % · 38 km/h
  9. Fri 20 Very low 20° · 78 % · 40 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. Put this widget on your website

Smoke today in Queanbeyan-Palerang: hourly forecast

The municipality and its fires

Since 2016

94,862
hectares burned
18 %
of its area
6
fires
5,330
km²

How many times has Queanbeyan-Palerang burned?

Queanbeyan-Palerang has burned 6 times since 2016, in 2 years: 2019 and 2020. The most recent: Eurobodalla fire, January 2020, with 5,895 hectares inside the municipality.

  1.   16
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  4. 5× 19
  5. 1× 20
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  11.   26
6
fires
2
years with fire
94,862
cumulative ha
21 Jan 2020
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 Queanbeyan-Palerang

  1. 5,895 ha Eurobodalla fire, January 2020 1.1% of the municipality · 52,364 ha in total · 16 days
  2. 8,166 ha Snowy Monaro fire, December 2019 1.5% of the municipality · 195,545 ha in total · 20 days
  3. 426 ha Shoalhaven fire, December 2019 0.1% of the municipality · 143,634 ha in total · 28 days
  4. 15,830 ha Eurobodalla fire, December 2019 3.0% of the municipality · 60,219 ha in total · 33 days
  5. 32,152 ha Shoalhaven fire, November 2019 6.0% of the municipality · 151,942 ha in total · 46 days
  6. 32,392 ha Queanbeyan-Palerang fire, November 2019 where it started 6.1% of the municipality · 32,337 ha in total · 17 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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