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Wildfires in Waroona

Waroona, Australia, has had 4 large fires recorded by GWIS since 2016: 40,383 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 48% of its area. Fire danger today: very low (FWI 1).

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 15° · 51 % · 49 km/h
  2. Sat 24 Very low 15° · 44 % · 43 km/h
  3. Sun 25 Very low 15° · 44 % · 41 km/h
  4. Mon 26 Very low 19° · 33 % · 40 km/h
  5. Tue 27 Low 23° · 29 % · 47 km/h
  6. Wed 28 Moderate 24° · 25 % · 53 km/h
  7. Thu 29 Moderate 25° · 32 % · 45 km/h
  8. Fri 30 Low 20° · 49 % · 36 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

40,383
hectares burned
48 %
of its area
4
fires
835
km²

Hectares per year

1617181920212223242526

Fires that entered Waroona

  1. 4,145 ha Waroona fire, March 2024 where it started 5.0% of the municipality · 5,049 ha in total · 4 days
  2. 2,284 ha Waroona fire, March 2017 where it started 2.7% of the municipality · 5,839 ha in total · 4 days
  3. 3,996 ha Waroona fire, October 2016 where it started 4.8% of the municipality · 5,559 ha in total · 10 days
  4. 29,958 ha Boddington fire, January 2016 36% of the municipality · 49,556 ha in total · 10 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).