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Wildfires in Rockhampton

Rockhampton, Australia, has had 4 large fires recorded by GWIS since 2019: 25,321 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 3.8% 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. Wed 28 Very low 32° · 52 % · 34 km/h
  2. Thu 29 Very low 28° · 58 % · 34 km/h
  3. Fri 30 Very low 26° · 52 % · 45 km/h
  4. Sat 31 Very low 25° · 62 % · 42 km/h
  5. Sun 1 Very low 29° · 46 % · 26 km/h
  6. Mon 2 Very low 31° · 57 % · 27 km/h
  7. Tue 3 Very low 30° · 54 % · 32 km/h
  8. Wed 4 Very low 32° · 50 % · 34 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

25,321
hectares burned
3.8 %
of its area
4
fires
6,602
km²

How many times has Rockhampton burned?

Rockhampton has burned 4 times since 2016, in 3 years: 2019, 2020 and 2025. The most recent: Central Highlands (Qld) fire, 30 November 2025, with 6,237 hectares inside the municipality.

  1.   16
  2.   17
  3.   18
  4. 1× 19
  5. 1× 20
  6.   21
  7.   22
  8.   23
  9.   24
  10. 2× 25
  11.   26
4
fires
3
years with fire
25,321
cumulative ha
30 Nov 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 Rockhampton

  1. 6,237 ha Central Highlands (Qld) fire, 30 November 2025 0.9% of the municipality · 19,658 ha in total · 11 days
  2. 13,771 ha Rockhampton fire, September 2025 where it started 2.1% of the municipality · 13,679 ha in total · 24 days
  3. 5,250 ha Rockhampton fire, October 2020 where it started 0.8% of the municipality · 5,229 ha in total · 29 days
  4. 63 ha Livingstone fire, December 2019 0.0% of the municipality · 6,948 ha in total · 13 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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