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Wildfires in Warrumbungle

Warrumbungle, Australia, has had 7 large fires recorded by GWIS since 2016: 72,190 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 5.8% of its area. Fire danger today: low (FWI 9).

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. Sun 1 Very low 26° · 29 % · 41 km/h
  2. Mon 2 Low 26° · 29 % · 30 km/h
  3. Tue 3 Very low 27° · 32 % · 52 km/h
  4. Wed 4 Moderate 26° · 25 % · 46 km/h
  5. Thu 5 Moderate 23° · 24 % · 45 km/h
  6. Fri 6 Moderate 24° · 27 % · 40 km/h
  7. Sat 7 Moderate 26° · 24 % · 62 km/h
  8. Sun 8 Moderate 21° · 19 % · 45 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

72,190
hectares burned
5.8 %
of its area
7
fires
12,410
km²

How many times has Warrumbungle burned?

Warrumbungle has burned 7 times since 2016, in 5 years: 2016, 2017, 2018, 2020 and 2025. The most recent: Warrumbungle fire, February 2025, with 5,258 hectares inside the municipality.

  1. 2× 16
  2. 1× 17
  3. 1× 18
  4.   19
  5. 2× 20
  6.   21
  7.   22
  8.   23
  9.   24
  10. 1× 25
  11.   26
7
fires
5
years with fire
72,190
cumulative ha
26 Feb 2025
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 Warrumbungle

  1. 5,258 ha Warrumbungle fire, February 2025 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 5,710 ha in total · 5 days
  2. 6,560 ha Warrumbungle fire, 22 January 2020 where it started 0.5% of the municipality · 7,030 ha in total · 5 days
  3. 5,242 ha Warrumbungle fire, 8 January 2020 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 5,241 ha in total · 6 days
  4. 22,315 ha Narrabri fire, January 2018 1.8% of the municipality · 67,269 ha in total · 8 days
  5. 19,768 ha Warrumbungle fire, February 2017 where it started 1.6% of the municipality · 23,584 ha in total · 9 days
  6. 5,330 ha Warrumbungle fire, April 2016 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 5,335 ha in total · 10 days
  7. 7,718 ha Warrumbungle fire, January 2016 where it started 0.6% of the municipality · 8,065 ha in total · 8 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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