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Wildfires in Upper Hunter

Upper Hunter, Australia, has had 6 large fires recorded by GWIS since 2017: 37,573 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 4.6% of its area. Fire danger today: very low (FWI 2).

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 24° · 57 % · 30 km/h
  2. Sat 24 Very low 29° · 38 % · 25 km/h
  3. Sun 25 Low 28° · 51 % · 59 km/h
  4. Mon 26 Very low 24° · 22 % · 49 km/h
  5. Tue 27 Low 22° · 31 % · 32 km/h
  6. Wed 28 Moderate 23° · 30 % · 35 km/h
  7. Thu 29 Moderate 25° · 27 % · 25 km/h
  8. Fri 30 Moderate 26° · 29 % · 35 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

37,573
hectares burned
4.6 %
of its area
6
fires
8,120
km²

Hectares per year

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Fires that entered Upper Hunter

  1. 14,386 ha Upper Hunter fire, November 2025 where it started 1.8% of the municipality · 18,588 ha in total · 14 days
  2. 3,146 ha Upper Hunter fire, 27 December 2019 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 5,267 ha in total · 12 days
  3. 2,294 ha Liverpool Plains fire, December 2019 0.3% of the municipality · 5,943 ha in total · 17 days
  4. 3,704 ha Upper Hunter fire, 12 December 2019 where it started 0.5% of the municipality · 6,597 ha in total · 11 days
  5. 12,174 ha Upper Hunter fire, November 2019 where it started 1.5% of the municipality · 17,487 ha in total · 26 days
  6. 1,869 ha Warrumbungle fire, February 2017 0.2% of the municipality · 23,584 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).