Wildfires in Western Downs

Name: Western Downs
Address: AU

Western Downs, Australia, has had 36 large fires recorded by GWIS since 2016: 278,243 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 7.3% 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

Fri 23 Very low 28° · 42 % · 38 km/h
Sat 24 Very low 25° · 63 % · 36 km/h
Sun 25 Very low 27° · 61 % · 49 km/h
Mon 26 Very low 30° · 53 % · 44 km/h
Tue 27 Very low 29° · 40 % · 32 km/h
Wed 28 Low 26° · 39 % · 37 km/h
Thu 29 Low 28° · 32 % · 44 km/h
Fri 30 Low 26° · 50 % · 39 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.

Since 2016

278,243
hectares burned: 7.3 %
of its area: 36
fires: 38,089
km²

Hectares per year

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Fires that entered Western Downs

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).

Fire danger, today and the coming days

The municipality and its fires

Since 2016

Hectares per year

Fires that entered Western Downs

Where this data comes from