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Wildfires in Upper Lachlan

Upper Lachlan, Australia, has had 2 large fires recorded by GWIS since 2019: 28,780 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 4.0% 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. Fri 23 Low 20° · 53 % · 37 km/h
  2. Sat 24 Very low 22° · 54 % · 26 km/h
  3. Sun 25 Very low 23° · 57 % · 64 km/h
  4. Mon 26 Very low 15° · 40 % · 54 km/h
  5. Tue 27 Very low 13° · 47 % · 44 km/h
  6. Wed 28 Low 15° · 48 % · 46 km/h
  7. Thu 29 Very low 18° · 46 % · 32 km/h
  8. Fri 30 Low 19° · 46 % · 43 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

28,780
hectares burned
4.0 %
of its area
2
fires
7,144
km²

Hectares per year

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Fires that entered Upper Lachlan

  1. 5,714 ha Upper Lachlan fire, March 2023 where it started 0.8% of the municipality · 5,711 ha in total · 4 days
  2. 23,065 ha Wollondilly fire, November 2019 3.2% of the municipality · 322,078 ha in total · 46 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).