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Wildfires in Tenterfield

Tenterfield, Australia, has had 22 large fires recorded by GWIS since 2017: 320,331 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 44% 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. Fri 23 Very low 20° · 64 % · 46 km/h
  2. Sat 24 Very low 21° · 69 % · 32 km/h
  3. Sun 25 Very low 22° · 72 % · 48 km/h
  4. Mon 26 Very low 23° · 61 % · 52 km/h
  5. Tue 27 Very low 21° · 37 % · 39 km/h
  6. Wed 28 Very low 20° · 34 % · 53 km/h
  7. Thu 29 Very low 22° · 53 % · 45 km/h
  8. Fri 30 Very low 21° · 45 % · 37 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

320,331
hectares burned
44 %
of its area
22
fires
7,358
km²

Hectares per year

1617181920212223242526

Fires that entered Tenterfield

  1. 1,059 ha Tenterfield fire, September 2026 where it started 0.1% of the municipality · 5,160 ha in total · 27 days
  2. 3,162 ha Tenterfield fire, 27 October 2023 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 5,555 ha in total · 7 days
  3. 9,410 ha Tenterfield fire, 26 October 2023 where it started 1.3% of the municipality · 9,347 ha in total · 8 days
  4. 7,608 ha Tenterfield fire, 26 October 2023 where it started 1.0% of the municipality · 7,563 ha in total · 8 days
  5. 5,660 ha Tenterfield fire, 26 October 2023 where it started 0.8% of the municipality · 5,962 ha in total · 8 days
  6. 4,464 ha Southern Downs fire, 26 October 2023 0.6% of the municipality · 10,413 ha in total · 7 days
  7. 616 ha Glen Innes Severn fire, 27 December 2019 0.1% of the municipality · 10,877 ha in total · 15 days
  8. 6,277 ha Tenterfield fire, 5 December 2019 where it started 0.8% of the municipality · 6,397 ha in total · 6 days
  9. 50,491 ha Tenterfield fire, 4 December 2019 where it started 6.9% of the municipality · 64,913 ha in total · 20 days
  10. 6,137 ha Tenterfield fire, November 2019 where it started 0.8% of the municipality · 6,088 ha in total · 9 days
  11. 3,178 ha Scenic Rim fire, 7 November 2019 0.4% of the municipality · 27,295 ha in total · 29 days
  12. 44,037 ha Clarence Valley fire, 27 October 2019 6.0% of the municipality · 175,358 ha in total · 58 days
  13. 59,289 ha Tenterfield fire, October 2019 where it started 8.1% of the municipality · 70,669 ha in total · 27 days
  14. 57,184 ha Tenterfield fire, September 2019 where it started 7.8% of the municipality · 70,910 ha in total · 18 days
  15. 6,792 ha Tenterfield fire, March 2019 where it started 0.9% of the municipality · 6,739 ha in total · 6 days
  16. 8,378 ha Tenterfield fire, 13 February 2019 where it started 1.1% of the municipality · 8,347 ha in total · 8 days
  17. 8,308 ha Tenterfield fire, 12 February 2019 where it started 1.1% of the municipality · 8,324 ha in total · 8 days
  18. 13,758 ha Tenterfield fire, 12 February 2019 where it started 1.9% of the municipality · 23,426 ha in total · 9 days
  19. 4,634 ha Tenterfield fire, August 2018 where it started 0.6% of the municipality · 5,025 ha in total · 5 days
  20. 5,624 ha Tenterfield fire, September 2017 where it started 0.8% of the municipality · 6,282 ha in total · 11 days
  21. 8,521 ha Tenterfield fire, August 2017 where it started 1.2% of the municipality · 8,469 ha in total · 23 days
  22. 5,745 ha Tenterfield fire, February 2017 where it started 0.8% of the municipality · 5,732 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).