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Wildfires in Townsville

Townsville, Australia, has had 0 large fires recorded by GWIS since 2020: 0 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 0.0% of its area. Fire danger today: moderate (FWI 16).

Only fires of 5,000 ha or more get an entry: smaller ones are not in the lists or the totals on this page.

These figures leave out 5 burns that were probably not wildfires (agricultural, pasture, reed-bed or prescribed). They appear in the lists, marked.

Fire danger, today and the coming days

FWI computed from the Open-Meteo forecast
  1. Fri 13 Moderate 30° · 56 % · 35 km/h
  2. Sat 14 Moderate 29° · 56 % · 36 km/h
  3. Sun 15 Moderate 29° · 56 % · 35 km/h
  4. Mon 16 Moderate 30° · 56 % · 37 km/h
  5. Tue 17 Moderate 30° · 65 % · 32 km/h
  6. Wed 18 Moderate 30° · 60 % · 35 km/h
  7. Thu 19 Low 29° · 68 % · 58 km/h
  8. Fri 20 Moderate 30° · 60 % · 44 km/h
  9. Sat 21 Very low 28° · 67 % · 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. Put this widget on your website

Smoke today in Townsville: hourly forecast

The municipality and its fires

Since 2016

0
hectares burned
0.0 %
of its area
0
fires
3,752
km²

Fires that entered Townsville

  1. 6,491 ha Charters Towers fire, 26 September 2025 1.7% of the municipality · 8,676 ha in total · 18 days
  2. 4,348 ha Charters Towers fire, 9 September 2025 1.2% of the municipality · 10,024 ha in total · 6 days
  3. 2,961 ha Charters Towers fire, May 2023 0.8% of the municipality · 5,729 ha in total · 9 days
  4. 5,397 ha Townsville fire, November 2020 where it started 1.4% of the municipality · 7,863 ha in total · 22 days
  5. 6,265 ha Townsville fire, April 2020 where it started 1.7% of the municipality · 7,824 ha in total · 15 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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