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Wildfires in Somerset

Somerset, Australia, has had 3 large fires recorded by GWIS since 2019: 22,688 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 4.2% of its area. Fire danger today: low (FWI 7).

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. Thu 29 Low 26° · 26 % · 32 km/h
  2. Fri 30 Low 25° · 44 % · 34 km/h
  3. Sat 31 Low 24° · 49 % · 26 km/h
  4. Sun 1 Very low 27° · 58 % · 35 km/h
  5. Mon 2 Low 31° · 35 % · 40 km/h
  6. Tue 3 Very low 29° · 64 % · 40 km/h
  7. Wed 4 Low 33° · 28 % · 47 km/h
  8. Thu 5 Low 30° · 31 % · 40 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

22,688
hectares burned
4.2 %
of its area
3
fires
5,394
km²

How many times has Somerset burned?

Somerset has burned 3 times since 2016, in 1 year: 2019. The most recent: Gympie fire, December 2019, with 5,169 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
22,688
cumulative ha
12 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 Somerset

  1. 5,169 ha Gympie fire, December 2019 1.0% of the municipality · 16,955 ha in total · 13 days
  2. 11,432 ha Toowoomba fire, November 2019 2.1% of the municipality · 23,680 ha in total · 14 days
  3. 6,087 ha Somerset fire, November 2019 where it started 1.1% of the municipality · 6,075 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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