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Wildfires in Wiluna

Wiluna, Australia, has had 57 large fires recorded by GWIS since 2017: 546,817 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 3.0% of its area. Fire danger today: very high (FWI 44).

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 24 Very high 29° · 20 % · 50 km/h
  2. Sun 25 Very high 26° · 18 % · 50 km/h
  3. Mon 26 Extreme 29° · 19 % · 57 km/h
  4. Tue 27 Extreme 34° · 9 % · 54 km/h
  5. Wed 28 Extreme 34° · 7 % · 55 km/h
  6. Thu 29 Extreme 32° · 12 % · 46 km/h
  7. Fri 30 Very high 35° · 9 % · 36 km/h
  8. Sat 31 Extreme 38° · 6 % · 61 km/h
  9. Sun 1 Extreme 34° · 14 % · 40 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

546,817
hectares burned
3.0 %
of its area
57
fires
182,023
km²

How many times has Wiluna burned?

Wiluna has burned 57 times since 2016, in 5 years: 2017, 2018, 2019, 2025 and 2026. The most recent: Wiluna fire, 21 October 2026, with 6,030 hectares inside the municipality.

  1.   16
  2. 10× 17
  3. 23× 18
  4. 4× 19
  5.   20
  6.   21
  7.   22
  8.   23
  9.   24
  10. 17× 25
  11. 3× 26
57
fires
5
years with fire
546,817
cumulative ha
21 Oct 2026
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 Wiluna

  1. 6,030 ha Wiluna fire, 21 October 2026 where it started 0.0% of the municipality · 6,088 ha in total · 4 days
  2. 8,020 ha Wiluna fire, 20 October 2026 where it started 0.0% of the municipality · 8,093 ha in total · 6 days
  3. 44 ha East Pilbara fire, 20 October 2026 0.0% of the municipality · 18,720 ha in total · 5 days
  4. 16,147 ha Wiluna fire, 13 November 2025 where it started 0.1% of the municipality · 16,274 ha in total · 8 days
  5. 5,258 ha Wiluna fire, 2 November 2025 where it started 0.0% of the municipality · 5,297 ha in total · 3 days
  6. 29,282 ha Wiluna fire, 2 November 2025 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 29,493 ha in total · 6 days
  7. 10,104 ha Wiluna fire, 1 November 2025 where it started 0.1% of the municipality · 10,129 ha in total · 9 days
  8. 5,517 ha Wiluna fire, 22 October 2025 where it started 0.0% of the municipality · 5,565 ha in total · 2 days
  9. 7,203 ha Wiluna fire, 20 October 2025 where it started 0.0% of the municipality · 7,207 ha in total · 4 days
  10. 1,317 ha East Pilbara fire, 20 October 2025 0.0% of the municipality · 18,649 ha in total · 4 days
  11. 13,365 ha Wiluna fire, 20 October 2025 where it started 0.1% of the municipality · 13,479 ha in total · 2 days
  12. 7,135 ha Wiluna fire, 20 October 2025 where it started 0.0% of the municipality · 7,204 ha in total · 4 days
  13. 7,442 ha Wiluna fire, 18 October 2025 where it started 0.0% of the municipality · 7,399 ha in total · 6 days
  14. 9,219 ha Wiluna fire, 18 October 2025 where it started 0.0% of the municipality · 9,308 ha in total · 3 days
  15. 10,745 ha Wiluna fire, 17 October 2025 where it started 0.1% of the municipality · 10,792 ha in total · 3 days
  16. 7,464 ha East Pilbara fire, 17 October 2025 0.0% of the municipality · 16,934 ha in total · 3 days
  17. 16,484 ha Wiluna fire, 17 October 2025 where it started 0.1% of the municipality · 16,387 ha in total · 4 days
  18. 9,298 ha Wiluna fire, 17 October 2025 where it started 0.0% of the municipality · 9,635 ha in total · 5 days
  19. 13,003 ha Wiluna fire, 15 October 2025 where it started 0.1% of the municipality · 13,045 ha in total · 5 days
  20. 43 ha East Pilbara fire, 13 September 2025 0.0% of the municipality · 14,018 ha in total · 7 days
  21. 7,994 ha Wiluna fire, February 2019 where it started 0.0% of the municipality · 7,839 ha in total · 4 days
  22. 5,393 ha Wiluna fire, 18 January 2019 where it started 0.0% of the municipality · 5,435 ha in total · 4 days
  23. 5,735 ha Wiluna fire, 6 January 2019 where it started 0.0% of the municipality · 5,631 ha in total · 4 days
  24. 6,252 ha Wiluna fire, 4 January 2019 where it started 0.0% of the municipality · 6,191 ha in total · 9 days
  25. 5,622 ha Wiluna fire, December 2018 where it started 0.0% of the municipality · 5,618 ha in total · 9 days
  26. 7,407 ha Wiluna fire, 26 October 2018 where it started 0.0% of the municipality · 7,412 ha in total · 5 days
  27. 14,205 ha Wiluna fire, 26 October 2018 where it started 0.1% of the municipality · 14,129 ha in total · 5 days
  28. 7,780 ha Wiluna fire, 25 October 2018 where it started 0.0% of the municipality · 7,782 ha in total · 6 days
  29. 11,137 ha Wiluna fire, 17 October 2018 where it started 0.1% of the municipality · 11,202 ha in total · 8 days
  30. 7,268 ha Wiluna fire, 13 October 2018 where it started 0.0% of the municipality · 7,317 ha in total · 6 days
  31. 6,305 ha East Pilbara fire, 12 October 2018 0.0% of the municipality · 7,655 ha in total · 2 days
  32. 5,924 ha Wiluna fire, 12 October 2018 where it started 0.0% of the municipality · 5,909 ha in total · 7 days
  33. 16,250 ha Wiluna fire, 11 October 2018 where it started 0.1% of the municipality · 16,118 ha in total · 13 days
  34. 18,226 ha Wiluna fire, 11 October 2018 where it started 0.1% of the municipality · 18,184 ha in total · 10 days
  35. 5,098 ha Wiluna fire, 11 October 2018 where it started 0.0% of the municipality · 5,151 ha in total · 1 day
  36. 8,722 ha Wiluna fire, 10 October 2018 where it started 0.0% of the municipality · 8,697 ha in total · 7 days
  37. 5,809 ha Wiluna fire, 10 October 2018 where it started 0.0% of the municipality · 5,802 ha in total · 4 days
  38. 21,808 ha Wiluna fire, 10 October 2018 where it started 0.1% of the municipality · 21,920 ha in total · 9 days
  39. 6,382 ha Wiluna fire, 10 October 2018 where it started 0.0% of the municipality · 6,400 ha in total · 6 days
  40. 11,254 ha Wiluna fire, 6 October 2018 where it started 0.1% of the municipality · 11,304 ha in total · 3 days
  41. 5,077 ha Wiluna fire, 5 October 2018 where it started 0.0% of the municipality · 5,103 ha in total · 3 days
  42. 17,834 ha Wiluna fire, 4 October 2018 where it started 0.1% of the municipality · 17,950 ha in total · 8 days
  43. 5,788 ha Ngaanyatjarraku fire, 9 August 2018 0.0% of the municipality · 11,594 ha in total · 9 days
  44. 6,880 ha Wiluna fire, 14 May 2018 where it started 0.0% of the municipality · 6,943 ha in total · 7 days
  45. 5,707 ha Wiluna fire, 14 May 2018 where it started 0.0% of the municipality · 5,755 ha in total · 2 days
  46. 5,342 ha Wiluna fire, 13 May 2018 where it started 0.0% of the municipality · 5,382 ha in total · 12 days
  47. 10,136 ha Wiluna fire, 13 May 2018 where it started 0.1% of the municipality · 24,436 ha in total · 7 days
  48. 14,858 ha Wiluna fire, 29 November 2017 where it started 0.1% of the municipality · 14,995 ha in total · 4 days
  49. 6,812 ha Wiluna fire, 27 November 2017 where it started 0.0% of the municipality · 6,835 ha in total · 5 days
  50. 11,688 ha Wiluna fire, 27 November 2017 where it started 0.1% of the municipality · 11,792 ha in total · 6 days
  51. 15,082 ha Wiluna fire, 27 November 2017 where it started 0.1% of the municipality · 15,227 ha in total · 6 days
  52. 5,066 ha Wiluna fire, 27 November 2017 where it started 0.0% of the municipality · 5,095 ha in total · 8 days
  53. 5,344 ha Wiluna fire, 27 November 2017 where it started 0.0% of the municipality · 5,358 ha in total · 2 days
  54. 30,834 ha Wiluna fire, 27 November 2017 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 30,921 ha in total · 6 days
  55. 10,064 ha Wiluna fire, 27 November 2017 where it started 0.1% of the municipality · 10,097 ha in total · 5 days
  56. 16,656 ha Wiluna fire, 18 November 2017 where it started 0.1% of the municipality · 16,417 ha in total · 12 days
  57. 5,961 ha Wiluna fire, 17 November 2017 where it started 0.0% of the municipality · 5,953 ha in total · 3 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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