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Wildfires in Unincorporated SA

Unincorporated SA, Australia, has had 12 large fires recorded by GWIS since 2019: 89,231 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 0.1% of its area. Fire danger today: high (FWI 36).

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. Sat 14 Moderate 25° · 39 % · 46 km/h
  2. Sun 15 High 24° · 28 % · 46 km/h
  3. Mon 16 High 26° · 17 % · 41 km/h
  4. Tue 17 Very high 31° · 15 % · 37 km/h
  5. Wed 18 Very extreme 35° · 13 % · 67 km/h
  6. Thu 19 Low 31° · 55 % · 44 km/h
  7. Fri 20 Moderate 32° · 39 % · 45 km/h
  8. Sat 21 Very high 39° · 19 % · 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 Unincorporated SA: hourly forecast

The municipality and its fires

Since 2016

89,231
hectares burned
0.1 %
of its area
12
fires
613,918
km²

How many times has Unincorporated SA burned?

Unincorporated SA has burned 12 times since 2016, in 5 years: 2019, 2022, 2023, 2025 and 2026. The most recent: Unincorporated SA fire, 26 January 2026, with 4,964 hectares inside the municipality.

  1.   16
  2.   17
  3.   18
  4. 5× 19
  5.   20
  6.   21
  7. 1× 22
  8. 3× 23
  9.   24
  10. 1× 25
  11. 2× 26
12
fires
5
years with fire
89,231
cumulative ha
26 Jan 2026
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 Unincorporated SA

  1. 4,964 ha Unincorporated SA fire, 26 January 2026 where it started 0.0% of the municipality · 5,147 ha in total · 2 days
  2. 15,651 ha Unincorporated SA fire, 4 January 2026 where it started 0.0% of the municipality · 15,469 ha in total · 5 days
  3. 5,637 ha Unincorporated SA fire, February 2025 where it started 0.0% of the municipality · 5,662 ha in total · 8 days
  4. 5,382 ha Unincorporated SA fire, 8 December 2023 where it started 0.0% of the municipality · 5,334 ha in total · 1 day
  5. 8,819 ha Unincorporated SA fire, 4 December 2023 where it started 0.0% of the municipality · 8,831 ha in total · 5 days
  6. 5,053 ha Unincorporated SA fire, November 2023 where it started 0.0% of the municipality · 5,257 ha in total · 8 days
  7. 7,331 ha Unincorporated SA fire, December 2022 where it started 0.0% of the municipality · 7,265 ha in total · 8 days
  8. 8,320 ha Unincorporated SA fire, 30 December 2019 where it started 0.0% of the municipality · 8,224 ha in total · 5 days
  9. 6,330 ha Unincorporated SA fire, 29 December 2019 where it started 0.0% of the municipality · 6,293 ha in total · 6 days
  10. 8,687 ha Unincorporated SA fire, 29 December 2019 where it started 0.0% of the municipality · 13,153 ha in total · 3 days
  11. 6,478 ha Unincorporated SA fire, 20 December 2019 where it started 0.0% of the municipality · 6,382 ha in total · 2 days
  12. 6,579 ha Unincorporated SA fire, 20 December 2019 where it started 0.0% of the municipality · 6,479 ha in total · 2 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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