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Wildfires in Richmond

Richmond, Australia, has had 28 large fires recorded by GWIS since 2016: 229,826 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 8.6% of its area. Fire danger today: low (FWI 6).

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° · 33 % · 42 km/h
  2. Tue 27 Low 35° · 38 % · 25 km/h
  3. Wed 28 Moderate 36° · 38 % · 31 km/h
  4. Thu 29 Low 36° · 35 % · 54 km/h
  5. Fri 30 Very low 35° · 40 % · 37 km/h
  6. Sat 31 Low 33° · 49 % · 30 km/h
  7. Sun 1 Moderate 35° · 29 % · 32 km/h
  8. Mon 2 Moderate 35° · 23 % · 28 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

229,826
hectares burned
8.6 %
of its area
28
fires
26,714
km²

How many times has Richmond burned?

Richmond has burned 28 times since 2016, in 11 years: 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023, 2024, 2025 and 2026. The most recent: Richmond fire, October 2026, with 5,483 hectares inside the municipality. Together they add up to 229,826 hectares burned inside the municipality, but the distinct burned area is 197,745 hectares, 7.4 % of its surface: part of it burned more than once.

  1. 1× 16
  2. 5× 17
  3. 1× 18
  4. 1× 19
  5. 3× 20
  6. 1× 21
  7. 2× 22
  8. 1× 23
  9. 3× 24
  10. 8× 25
  11. 2× 26
28
fires
11
years with fire
229,826
cumulative ha
197,745
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 Richmond

  1. 5,483 ha Richmond fire, October 2026 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 5,475 ha in total · 3 days
  2. 569 ha Croydon fire, 15 October 2026 0.0% of the municipality · 11,893 ha in total · 7 days
  3. 13,749 ha Richmond fire, 13 December 2025 where it started 0.5% of the municipality · 13,717 ha in total · 7 days
  4. 4,726 ha Etheridge fire, 12 December 2025 0.2% of the municipality · 7,393 ha in total · 3 days
  5. 6,612 ha Richmond fire, 11 December 2025 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 6,589 ha in total · 4 days
  6. 10,754 ha Richmond fire, November 2025 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 10,745 ha in total · 10 days
  7. 3,330 ha Richmond fire, 26 October 2025 where it started 0.1% of the municipality · 6,119 ha in total · 13 days
  8. 3,890 ha Richmond fire, 25 October 2025 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 5,400 ha in total · 9 days
  9. 5,211 ha Richmond fire, 18 October 2025 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 5,211 ha in total · 6 days
  10. 41,611 ha Croydon fire, 10 October 2025 1.6% of the municipality · 121,152 ha in total · 35 days
  11. 5,061 ha Richmond fire, December 2024 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 5,044 ha in total · 11 days
  12. 6,770 ha Richmond fire, November 2024 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 6,773 ha in total · 6 days
  13. 42,789 ha Richmond fire, August 2024 where it started 1.6% of the municipality · 42,781 ha in total · 33 days
  14. 18,900 ha Richmond fire, November 2023 where it started 0.7% of the municipality · 56,964 ha in total · 15 days
  15. 5,364 ha Richmond fire, December 2022 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 5,368 ha in total · 5 days
  16. 10,629 ha Richmond fire, January 2022 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 10,612 ha in total · 5 days
  17. 11,396 ha Richmond fire, October 2021 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 15,159 ha in total · 7 days
  18. 1,401 ha Etheridge fire, 29 November 2020 0.0% of the municipality · 11,040 ha in total · 16 days
  19. 4,957 ha Richmond fire, November 2020 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 10,323 ha in total · 13 days
  20. 126 ha Flinders (Qld) fire, January 2020 0.0% of the municipality · 6,619 ha in total · 9 days
  21. 14,497 ha Richmond fire, December 2019 where it started 0.5% of the municipality · 14,492 ha in total · 17 days
  22. 1,070 ha Richmond fire, December 2018 where it started 0.0% of the municipality · 6,283 ha in total · 12 days
  23. 1,461 ha Richmond fire, 11 December 2017 where it started 0.0% of the municipality · 6,613 ha in total · 17 days
  24. 6,282 ha Richmond fire, 7 December 2017 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 6,275 ha in total · 14 days
  25. 2,222 ha Richmond fire, November 2017 where it started 0.1% of the municipality · 7,482 ha in total · 8 days
  26. 78 ha Croydon fire, 5 November 2017 0.0% of the municipality · 5,601 ha in total · 4 days
  27. 786 ha Croydon fire, 5 November 2017 0.0% of the municipality · 8,223 ha in total · 4 days
  28. 104 ha Croydon fire, 3 December 2016 0.0% of the municipality · 5,780 ha in total · 4 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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