Wildfires in Southern Downs
Southern Downs, Australia, has had 9 large fires recorded by GWIS since 2018: 55,337 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 7.8% 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- Fri 23 Very low 21° · 66 % · 39 km/h
- Sat 24 Very low 21° · 69 % · 34 km/h
- Sun 25 Very low 22° · 69 % · 54 km/h
- Mon 26 Very low 24° · 61 % · 55 km/h
- Tue 27 Very low 21° · 33 % · 42 km/h
- Wed 28 Very low 20° · 35 % · 54 km/h
- Thu 29 Very low 22° · 32 % · 41 km/h
- Fri 30 Very low 21° · 49 % · 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.
The municipality and its fires
Since 2016
- 55,337
- hectares burned
- 7.8 %
- of its area
- 9
- fires
- 7,127
- km²
Hectares per year
Fires that entered Southern Downs
- 4,137 ha Tenterfield fire, September 2026 0.6% of the municipality · 5,160 ha in total · 27 days
- 9,274 ha Southern Downs fire, 31 October 2023 where it started 1.3% of the municipality · 9,246 ha in total · 3 days
- 6,013 ha Southern Downs fire, 26 October 2023 where it started 0.8% of the municipality · 10,413 ha in total · 7 days
- 333 ha Tenterfield fire, 26 October 2023 0.0% of the municipality · 5,962 ha in total · 8 days
- 313 ha Lockyer Valley fire, 5 November 2019 0.0% of the municipality · 6,115 ha in total · 8 days
- 15,628 ha Scenic Rim fire, 5 November 2019 2.2% of the municipality · 24,586 ha in total · 25 days
- 9,428 ha Southern Downs fire, September 2019 where it started 1.3% of the municipality · 10,678 ha in total · 13 days
- 9,798 ha Tenterfield fire, 12 February 2019 1.4% of the municipality · 23,426 ha in total · 9 days
- 413 ha Tenterfield fire, August 2018 0.1% of the municipality · 5,025 ha in total · 5 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).