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Wildfires in Shark Bay

Shark Bay, Australia, has had 6 large fires recorded by GWIS since 2018: 77,553 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 3.2% of its area. Fire danger today: extreme (FWI 50).

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 2 Very high 30° · 29 % · 50 km/h
  2. Tue 3 Extreme 32° · 22 % · 52 km/h
  3. Wed 4 Extreme 36° · 11 % · 46 km/h
  4. Thu 5 Extreme 36° · 18 % · 46 km/h
  5. Fri 6 Very high 31° · 32 % · 48 km/h
  6. Sat 7 Very high 31° · 32 % · 51 km/h
  7. Sun 8 Very high 30° · 33 % · 52 km/h
  8. Mon 9 Very high 31° · 26 % · 57 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

77,553
hectares burned
3.2 %
of its area
6
fires
24,335
km²

How many times has Shark Bay burned?

Shark Bay has burned 6 times since 2016, in 4 years: 2018, 2022, 2023 and 2025. The most recent: Shark Bay fire, November 2025, with 28,369 hectares inside the municipality. Together they add up to 77,553 hectares burned inside the municipality, but the distinct burned area is 60,743 hectares, 2.5 % of its surface: part of it burned more than once.

  1.   16
  2.   17
  3. 1× 18
  4.   19
  5.   20
  6.   21
  7. 2× 22
  8. 1× 23
  9.   24
  10. 2× 25
  11.   26
6
fires
4
years with fire
77,553
cumulative ha
60,743
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 Shark Bay

  1. 28,369 ha Shark Bay fire, November 2025 where it started 1.2% of the municipality · 28,114 ha in total · 8 days
  2. 5,125 ha Shark Bay fire, January 2025 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 5,089 ha in total · 9 days
  3. 14,505 ha Shark Bay fire, March 2023 where it started 0.6% of the municipality · 14,378 ha in total · 8 days
  4. 10,091 ha Shark Bay fire, January 2022 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 10,077 ha in total · 13 days
  5. 12,791 ha Carnarvon fire, 6 January 2022 0.5% of the municipality · 19,491 ha in total · 8 days
  6. 6,671 ha Shark Bay fire, January 2018 where it started 0.3% of the municipality · 6,613 ha in total · 12 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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