Wildfires in Roper Gulf

Name: Roper Gulf
Address: AU

Roper Gulf, Australia, has had 815 large fires recorded by GWIS since 2016: 11,620,408 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 62% of its area. Fire danger today: high (FWI 28).

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

Fri 30 High 38° · 33 % · 41 km/h
Sat 31 High 39° · 32 % · 33 km/h
Sun 1 High 40° · 25 % · 36 km/h
Mon 2 Very high 41° · 22 % · 39 km/h
Tue 3 Very high 41° · 22 % · 40 km/h
Wed 4 Very high 41° · 23 % · 38 km/h
Thu 5 Moderate 40° · 25 % · 41 km/h
Fri 6 High 38° · 41 % · 41 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.

Since 2016

11,620,408
hectares burned: 62 %
of its area: 815
fires: 186,446
km²

How many times has Roper Gulf burned?

Roper Gulf has burned 815 times since 2016, in 11 years: 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023, 2024, 2025 and 2026. The most recent: Roper Gulf fire, 20 October 2026, with 16,569 hectares inside the municipality.

815
fires: 11
years with fire: 11,620,408
cumulative ha: 20 Oct 2026
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 Roper Gulf

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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