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Wildfires in Wellington

Wellington, Australia, has had 8 large fires recorded by GWIS since 2018: 189,893 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 18% 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 30 Very low 21° · 64 % · 36 km/h
  2. Sat 31 Very low 23° · 74 % · 52 km/h
  3. Sun 1 Very low 20° · 57 % · 46 km/h
  4. Mon 2 Very low 22° · 66 % · 25 km/h
  5. Tue 3 Very low 20° · 58 % · 37 km/h
  6. Wed 4 Very low 20° · 59 % · 66 km/h
  7. Thu 5 Very low 15° · 53 % · 49 km/h
  8. Fri 6 Very low 22° · 53 % · 41 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

189,893
hectares burned
18 %
of its area
8
fires
10,814
km²

How many times has Wellington burned?

Wellington has burned 8 times since 2016, in 5 years: 2018, 2019, 2023, 2025 and 2026. The most recent: Wellington fire, January 2026, with 47,293 hectares inside the municipality. Together they add up to 189,893 hectares burned inside the municipality, but the distinct burned area is 166,117 hectares, 15 % of its surface: part of it burned more than once.

  1.   16
  2.   17
  3. 1× 18
  4. 4× 19
  5.   20
  6.   21
  7.   22
  8. 1× 23
  9.   24
  10. 1× 25
  11. 1× 26
8
fires
5
years with fire
189,893
cumulative ha
166,117
distinct ha

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 Wellington

  1. 47,293 ha Wellington fire, January 2026 where it started 4.4% of the municipality · 63,414 ha in total · 18 days
  2. 7,466 ha Wellington fire, February 2025 where it started 0.7% of the municipality · 7,500 ha in total · 15 days
  3. 10,324 ha Wellington fire, October 2023 where it started 1.0% of the municipality · 11,888 ha in total · 2 days
  4. 61 ha Alpine fire, 31 December 2019 0.0% of the municipality · 16,523 ha in total · 5 days
  5. 5,377 ha Wellington fire, 28 February 2019 where it started 0.5% of the municipality · 5,411 ha in total · 18 days
  6. 79,350 ha Wellington fire, 28 February 2019 where it started 7.3% of the municipality · 79,659 ha in total · 22 days
  7. 31,996 ha Wellington fire, 28 February 2019 where it started 3.0% of the municipality · 33,046 ha in total · 23 days
  8. 8,026 ha Wellington fire, March 2018 where it started 0.7% of the municipality · 8,086 ha in total · 21 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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