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Wildfires in Toowoomba

Toowoomba, Australia, has had 12 large fires recorded by GWIS since 2016: 65,729 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 5.0% of its area. Fire danger today: low (FWI 10).

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 5 Moderate 32° · 23 % · 54 km/h
  2. Fri 6 Low 29° · 24 % · 37 km/h
  3. Sat 7 Moderate 29° · 33 % · 34 km/h
  4. Sun 8 High 28° · 20 % · 43 km/h
  5. Mon 9 Moderate 25° · 33 % · 35 km/h
  6. Tue 10 Moderate 28° · 47 % · 34 km/h
  7. Wed 11 Moderate 31° · 49 % · 55 km/h
  8. Thu 12 Low 26° · 22 % · 51 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 Toowoomba: hourly forecast

The municipality and its fires

Since 2016

65,729
hectares burned
5.0 %
of its area
12
fires
13,020
km²

How many times has Toowoomba burned?

Toowoomba has burned 12 times since 2016, in 6 years: 2016, 2019, 2020, 2023, 2024 and 2025. The most recent: Goondiwindi fire, October 2025, with 5,959 hectares inside the municipality. Together they add up to 65,729 hectares burned inside the municipality, but the distinct burned area is 61,945 hectares, 4.8 % of its surface: part of it burned more than once.

  1. 1× 16
  2.   17
  3.   18
  4. 1× 19
  5. 2× 20
  6.   21
  7.   22
  8. 4× 23
  9. 2× 24
  10. 2× 25
  11.   26
12
fires
6
years with fire
65,729
cumulative ha
61,945
distinct ha

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 Toowoomba

  1. 5,959 ha Goondiwindi fire, October 2025 0.5% of the municipality · 25,505 ha in total · 25 days
  2. 6,005 ha Toowoomba fire, April 2025 where it started 0.5% of the municipality · 6,038 ha in total · 10 days
  3. 4,768 ha Toowoomba fire, August 2024 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 5,036 ha in total · 4 days
  4. 10 ha Goondiwindi fire, April 2024 0.0% of the municipality · 5,089 ha in total · 2 days
  5. 5,829 ha Goondiwindi fire, December 2023 0.4% of the municipality · 24,145 ha in total · 11 days
  6. 5,629 ha Toowoomba fire, October 2023 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 5,582 ha in total · 3 days
  7. 10,735 ha Western Downs fire, September 2023 0.8% of the municipality · 25,189 ha in total · 6 days
  8. 1,314 ha Western Downs fire, 15 July 2023 0.1% of the municipality · 5,945 ha in total · 9 days
  9. 6,711 ha Toowoomba fire, November 2020 where it started 0.5% of the municipality · 7,232 ha in total · 10 days
  10. 5,490 ha Toowoomba fire, September 2020 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 5,904 ha in total · 7 days
  11. 12,346 ha Toowoomba fire, November 2019 where it started 1.0% of the municipality · 23,680 ha in total · 14 days
  12. 935 ha Western Downs fire, December 2016 0.1% of the municipality · 7,394 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).

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