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Wildfires in Whitsunday

Whitsunday, Australia, has had 13 large fires recorded by GWIS since 2017: 142,049 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 5.9% of its area. Fire danger today: low (FWI 7).

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. Sat 31 Very low 30° · 55 % · 35 km/h
  2. Sun 1 Low 33° · 38 % · 38 km/h
  3. Mon 2 Very low 32° · 50 % · 27 km/h
  4. Tue 3 Low 34° · 42 % · 34 km/h
  5. Wed 4 Very low 34° · 43 % · 34 km/h
  6. Thu 5 Low 34° · 25 % · 30 km/h
  7. Fri 6 Moderate 35° · 29 % · 46 km/h
  8. Sat 7 Moderate 35° · 31 % · 38 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

142,049
hectares burned
5.9 %
of its area
13
fires
23,941
km²

How many times has Whitsunday burned?

Whitsunday has burned 13 times since 2016, in 6 years: 2017, 2021, 2022, 2023, 2024 and 2025. The most recent: Whitsunday fire, 4 December 2025, with 10,511 hectares inside the municipality. Together they add up to 142,049 hectares burned inside the municipality, but the distinct burned area is 129,146 hectares, 5.4 % of its surface: part of it burned more than once.

  1.   16
  2. 1× 17
  3.   18
  4.   19
  5.   20
  6. 1× 21
  7. 1× 22
  8. 3× 23
  9. 4× 24
  10. 3× 25
  11.   26
13
fires
6
years with fire
142,049
cumulative ha
129,146
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 Whitsunday

  1. 10,511 ha Whitsunday fire, 4 December 2025 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 10,481 ha in total · 11 days
  2. 6,564 ha Whitsunday fire, 3 December 2025 where it started 0.3% of the municipality · 6,532 ha in total · 12 days
  3. 7,935 ha Whitsunday fire, January 2025 where it started 0.3% of the municipality · 7,895 ha in total · 10 days
  4. 5,037 ha Whitsunday fire, December 2024 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 5,003 ha in total · 2 days
  5. 14,385 ha Whitsunday fire, November 2024 where it started 0.6% of the municipality · 15,952 ha in total · 23 days
  6. 10,514 ha Mackay fire, 4 November 2024 0.4% of the municipality · 32,527 ha in total · 16 days
  7. 48,259 ha Whitsunday fire, October 2024 where it started 2.0% of the municipality · 48,072 ha in total · 25 days
  8. 6,529 ha Whitsunday fire, 5 December 2023 where it started 0.3% of the municipality · 6,510 ha in total · 6 days
  9. 9,400 ha Whitsunday fire, 2 December 2023 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 9,350 ha in total · 9 days
  10. 7,743 ha Whitsunday fire, October 2023 where it started 0.3% of the municipality · 7,695 ha in total · 9 days
  11. 5,143 ha Whitsunday fire, October 2022 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 18,287 ha in total · 16 days
  12. 3,863 ha Mackay fire, October 2021 0.2% of the municipality · 6,014 ha in total · 15 days
  13. 6,166 ha Whitsunday fire, December 2017 where it started 0.3% of the municipality · 6,140 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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