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Wildfires in Wingecarribee

Wingecarribee, Australia, has had 4 large fires recorded by GWIS since 2019: 70,167 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 26% of its area. Fire danger today: very low (FWI 5).

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 23 Very low 20° · 60 % · 38 km/h
  2. Sat 24 Very low 26° · 38 % · 31 km/h
  3. Sun 25 Very low 27° · 41 % · 57 km/h
  4. Mon 26 Very low 19° · 26 % · 39 km/h
  5. Tue 27 Very low 18° · 31 % · 37 km/h
  6. Wed 28 Low 17° · 37 % · 57 km/h
  7. Thu 29 Low 22° · 31 % · 32 km/h
  8. Fri 30 Low 22° · 43 % · 39 km/h
  9. Sat 31 Very low 18° · 67 % · 33 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

70,167
hectares burned
26 %
of its area
4
fires
2,695
km²

How many times has Wingecarribee burned?

Wingecarribee has burned 4 times since 2016, in 2 years: 2019 and 2020. The most recent: Wingecarribee fire, January 2020, with 7,597 hectares inside the municipality. Together they add up to 70,167 hectares burned inside the municipality, but the distinct burned area is 63,244 hectares, 23 % of its surface: part of it burned more than once.

  1.   16
  2.   17
  3.   18
  4. 3× 19
  5. 1× 20
  6.   21
  7.   22
  8.   23
  9.   24
  10.   25
  11.   26
4
fires
2
years with fire
70,167
cumulative ha
63,244
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 Wingecarribee

  1. 7,597 ha Wingecarribee fire, January 2020 where it started 2.8% of the municipality · 8,176 ha in total · 6 days
  2. 13,973 ha Shoalhaven fire, December 2019 5.2% of the municipality · 143,634 ha in total · 21 days
  3. 44,488 ha Wollondilly fire, November 2019 17% of the municipality · 322,078 ha in total · 46 days
  4. 4,110 ha Wingecarribee fire, April 2019 where it started 1.5% of the municipality · 5,520 ha in total · 4 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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