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Wildfires in Towong

Towong, Australia, has had 6 large fires recorded by GWIS since 2019: 269,004 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 40% of its area. Fire danger today: very low (FWI 4).

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 27 Very low 17° · 32 % · 34 km/h
  2. Wed 28 Very low 16° · 38 % · 35 km/h
  3. Thu 29 Low 23° · 36 % · 35 km/h
  4. Fri 30 Low 23° · 41 % · 24 km/h
  5. Sat 31 Very low 20° · 56 % · 42 km/h
  6. Sun 1 Very low 20° · 42 % · 40 km/h
  7. Mon 2 Very low 22° · 40 % · 33 km/h
  8. Tue 3 Very low 23° · 44 % · 48 km/h
  9. Wed 4 Very low 20° · 46 % · 49 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

269,004
hectares burned
40 %
of its area
6
fires
6,688
km²

How many times has Towong burned?

Towong has burned 6 times since 2016, in 3 years: 2019, 2020 and 2026. The most recent: Towong fire, January 2026, with 126,180 hectares inside the municipality. Together they add up to 269,004 hectares burned inside the municipality, but the distinct burned area is 238,422 hectares, 36 % of its surface: part of it burned more than once.

  1.   16
  2.   17
  3.   18
  4. 3× 19
  5. 2× 20
  6.   21
  7.   22
  8.   23
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  10.   25
  11. 1× 26
6
fires
3
years with fire
269,004
cumulative ha
238,422
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 Towong

  1. 126,180 ha Towong fire, January 2026 where it started 19% of the municipality · 126,624 ha in total · 30 days
  2. 6,812 ha Towong fire, January 2020 where it started 1.0% of the municipality · 10,200 ha in total · 7 days
  3. 139 ha Snowy Valleys fire, January 2020 0.0% of the municipality · 11,745 ha in total · 10 days
  4. 4,510 ha Towong fire, 31 December 2019 where it started 0.7% of the municipality · 23,826 ha in total · 5 days
  5. 71,957 ha Towong fire, 30 December 2019 where it started 11% of the municipality · 86,829 ha in total · 21 days
  6. 59,405 ha Greater Hume fire, December 2019 8.9% of the municipality · 94,721 ha in total · 17 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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