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Wildfires in Tamworth

Tamworth, Australia, has had 10 large fires recorded by GWIS since 2018: 85,129 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 8.6% of its area. Fire danger today: high (FWI 33).

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 10 High 27° · 20 % · 32 km/h
  2. Wed 11 High 33° · 20 % · 38 km/h
  3. Thu 12 Moderate 32° · 28 % · 30 km/h
  4. Fri 13 High 34° · 27 % · 38 km/h
  5. Sat 14 Low 29° · 56 % · 41 km/h
  6. Sun 15 Very low 29° · 49 % · 48 km/h
  7. Mon 16 Very low 24° · 73 % · 44 km/h
  8. Tue 17 Very low 26° · 33 % · 41 km/h
  9. Wed 18 Very low 26° · 37 % · 41 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 Tamworth: hourly forecast

The municipality and its fires

Since 2016

85,129
hectares burned
8.6 %
of its area
10
fires
9,913
km²

How many times has Tamworth burned?

Tamworth has burned 10 times since 2016, in 2 years: 2018 and 2019. The most recent: Liverpool Plains fire, December 2019, with 1,741 hectares inside the municipality.

  1.   16
  2.   17
  3. 1× 18
  4. 9× 19
  5.   20
  6.   21
  7.   22
  8.   23
  9.   24
  10.   25
  11.   26
10
fires
2
years with fire
85,129
cumulative ha
14 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 Tamworth

  1. 1,741 ha Liverpool Plains fire, December 2019 0.2% of the municipality · 5,943 ha in total · 18 days
  2. 2,922 ha Upper Hunter fire, 12 December 2019 0.3% of the municipality · 6,597 ha in total · 11 days
  3. 6,412 ha Tamworth fire, 12 December 2019 where it started 0.6% of the municipality · 6,418 ha in total · 34 days
  4. 29,800 ha Tamworth fire, 11 December 2019 where it started 3.0% of the municipality · 29,795 ha in total · 27 days
  5. 5,024 ha Tamworth fire, 10 December 2019 where it started 0.5% of the municipality · 5,026 ha in total · 13 days
  6. 274 ha Gwydir fire, 3 December 2019 0.0% of the municipality · 8,867 ha in total · 29 days
  7. 10,001 ha Tamworth fire, November 2019 where it started 1.0% of the municipality · 9,965 ha in total · 11 days
  8. 9,880 ha Narrabri fire, October 2019 1.0% of the municipality · 24,949 ha in total · 17 days
  9. 5,421 ha Tamworth fire, February 2019 where it started 0.6% of the municipality · 5,429 ha in total · 6 days
  10. 13,654 ha Tamworth fire, January 2018 where it started 1.4% of the municipality · 16,073 ha in total · 7 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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