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Wildfires in Snowy Valleys

Snowy Valleys, Australia, has had 6 large fires recorded by GWIS since 2019: 200,922 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 22% of its area. Fire danger today: very low (FWI 0).

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. Tue 3 Very low 20° · 41 % · 30 km/h
  2. Wed 4 Very low 18° · 41 % · 53 km/h
  3. Thu 5 Very low 14° · 48 % · 43 km/h
  4. Fri 6 Very low 16° · 44 % · 39 km/h
  5. Sat 7 Very low 11° · 67 % · 54 km/h
  6. Sun 8 Very low 13° · 38 % · 39 km/h
  7. Mon 9 Very low 14° · 41 % · 39 km/h
  8. Tue 10 Very low 18° · 34 % · 36 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

200,922
hectares burned
22 %
of its area
6
fires
8,953
km²

How many times has Snowy Valleys burned?

Snowy Valleys has burned 6 times since 2016, in 2 years: 2019 and 2020. The most recent: Snowy Monaro fire, 27 January 2020, with 5,946 hectares inside the municipality.

  1.   16
  2.   17
  3.   18
  4. 4× 19
  5. 2× 20
  6.   21
  7.   22
  8.   23
  9.   24
  10.   25
  11.   26
6
fires
2
years with fire
200,922
cumulative ha
27 Jan 2020
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 Snowy Valleys

  1. 5,946 ha Snowy Monaro fire, 27 January 2020 0.7% of the municipality · 104,942 ha in total · 12 days
  2. 5,310 ha Snowy Valleys fire, January 2020 where it started 0.6% of the municipality · 11,745 ha in total · 10 days
  3. 15,210 ha Towong fire, 30 December 2019 1.7% of the municipality · 86,829 ha in total · 21 days
  4. 1,439 ha Greater Hume fire, December 2019 0.2% of the municipality · 94,721 ha in total · 17 days
  5. 164,513 ha Snowy Valleys fire, December 2019 where it started 18% of the municipality · 177,828 ha in total · 23 days
  6. 8,504 ha Snowy Valleys fire, January 2019 where it started 1.0% of the municipality · 8,480 ha in total · 10 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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