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Wildfires in Sandstone

Sandstone, Australia, has had 2 large fires recorded by GWIS since 2018: 7,288 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 0.2% of its area. Fire danger today: very high (FWI 41).

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. Fri 23 High 26° · 19 % · 38 km/h
  2. Sat 24 Very high 22° · 13 % · 47 km/h
  3. Sun 25 High 21° · 18 % · 39 km/h
  4. Mon 26 High 24° · 13 % · 32 km/h
  5. Tue 27 Low 19° · 37 % · 65 km/h
  6. Wed 28 Very low 17° · 62 % · 57 km/h
  7. Thu 29 Low 28° · 29 % · 41 km/h
  8. Fri 30 Moderate 36° · 24 % · 26 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

7,288
hectares burned
0.2 %
of its area
2
fires
32,697
km²

Hectares per year

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Fires that entered Sandstone

  1. 99 ha Menzies fire, November 2023 0.0% of the municipality · 7,104 ha in total · 8 days
  2. 7,189 ha Sandstone fire, January 2018 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 7,226 ha in total · 3 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).