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Wildfires in Walcha

Walcha, Australia, has had 6 large fires recorded by GWIS since 2017: 270,328 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 43% of its area. Fire danger today: very low (FWI 0).

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 17° · 70 % · 36 km/h
  2. Sat 24 Very low 21° · 51 % · 29 km/h
  3. Sun 25 Very low 20° · 74 % · 60 km/h
  4. Mon 26 Very low 17° · 80 % · 59 km/h
  5. Tue 27 Very low 18° · 38 % · 40 km/h
  6. Wed 28 Very low 18° · 39 % · 37 km/h
  7. Thu 29 Very low 18° · 41 % · 27 km/h
  8. Fri 30 Very low 19° · 49 % · 37 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

270,328
hectares burned
43 %
of its area
6
fires
6,279
km²

Hectares per year

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Fires that entered Walcha

  1. 245 ha Tamworth fire, 11 December 2019 0.0% of the municipality · 29,795 ha in total · 27 days
  2. 49,448 ha Walcha fire, October 2019 where it started 7.9% of the municipality · 207,639 ha in total · 85 days
  3. 218,862 ha Armidale fire, October 2019 35% of the municipality · 627,676 ha in total · 90 days
  4. 298 ha Armidale fire, 23 September 2019 0.0% of the municipality · 9,140 ha in total · 11 days
  5. 162 ha Armidale fire, 7 September 2019 0.0% of the municipality · 8,277 ha in total · 10 days
  6. 1,312 ha Mid-Coast fire, February 2017 0.2% of the municipality · 7,727 ha in total · 9 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).