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Wildfires in Shoalhaven

Shoalhaven, Australia, has had 3 large fires recorded by GWIS since 2019: 235,451 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 51% of its area. Fire danger today: very low (FWI 1).

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 4 Very low 23° · 53 % · 41 km/h
  2. Thu 5 Very low 20° · 42 % · 43 km/h
  3. Fri 6 Very low 20° · 60 % · 50 km/h
  4. Sat 7 Very low 24° · 42 % · 63 km/h
  5. Sun 8 Very low 16° · 52 % · 75 km/h
  6. Mon 9 Very low 17° · 51 % · 57 km/h
  7. Tue 10 Very low 19° · 57 % · 42 km/h
  8. Wed 11 Very low 22° · 64 % · 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. Put this widget on your website

Smoke today in Shoalhaven: hourly forecast

The municipality and its fires

Since 2016

235,451
hectares burned
51 %
of its area
3
fires
4,577
km²

How many times has Shoalhaven burned?

Shoalhaven has burned 3 times since 2016, in 1 year: 2019. The most recent: Shoalhaven fire, December 2019, with 126,009 hectares inside the municipality.

  1.   16
  2.   17
  3.   18
  4. 3× 19
  5.   20
  6.   21
  7.   22
  8.   23
  9.   24
  10.   25
  11.   26
3
fires
1
years with fire
235,451
cumulative ha
18 Dec 2019
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 Shoalhaven

  1. 126,009 ha Shoalhaven fire, December 2019 where it started 28% of the municipality · 143,634 ha in total · 28 days
  2. 506 ha Eurobodalla fire, December 2019 0.1% of the municipality · 60,219 ha in total · 33 days
  3. 108,937 ha Shoalhaven fire, November 2019 where it started 24% of the municipality · 151,942 ha in total · 46 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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