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Wildfires in Yilgarn

Yilgarn, Australia, has had 9 large fires recorded by GWIS since 2016: 102,674 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 3.4% of its area. Fire danger today: high (FWI 26).

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 High 19° · 15 % · 48 km/h
  2. Sun 25 High 21° · 17 % · 40 km/h
  3. Mon 26 High 22° · 17 % · 38 km/h
  4. Tue 27 High 25° · 19 % · 47 km/h
  5. Wed 28 Low 24° · 34 % · 53 km/h
  6. Thu 29 Moderate 27° · 29 % · 32 km/h
  7. Fri 30 High 29° · 23 % · 41 km/h
  8. Sat 31 High 28° · 20 % · 59 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

102,674
hectares burned
3.4 %
of its area
9
fires
30,544
km²

How many times has Yilgarn burned?

Yilgarn has burned 9 times since 2016, in 7 years: 2016, 2019, 2020, 2022, 2023, 2025 and 2026. The most recent: Yilgarn fire, April 2026, with 5,978 hectares inside the municipality.

  1. 1× 16
  2.   17
  3.   18
  4. 3× 19
  5. 1× 20
  6.   21
  7. 1× 22
  8. 1× 23
  9.   24
  10. 1× 25
  11. 1× 26
9
fires
7
years with fire
102,674
cumulative ha
15 Apr 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 Yilgarn

  1. 5,978 ha Yilgarn fire, April 2026 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 5,932 ha in total · 3 days
  2. 26,800 ha Yilgarn fire, January 2025 where it started 0.9% of the municipality · 26,404 ha in total · 11 days
  3. 3,501 ha Yilgarn fire, November 2023 where it started 0.1% of the municipality · 8,156 ha in total · 5 days
  4. 7,800 ha Yilgarn fire, January 2022 where it started 0.3% of the municipality · 7,826 ha in total · 7 days
  5. 19,876 ha Kondinin fire, 6 February 2020 0.6% of the municipality · 28,736 ha in total · 5 days
  6. 21,603 ha Yilgarn fire, December 2019 where it started 0.7% of the municipality · 21,564 ha in total · 15 days
  7. 3,856 ha Yilgarn fire, November 2019 where it started 0.1% of the municipality · 5,152 ha in total · 11 days
  8. 7,623 ha Yilgarn fire, February 2019 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 7,657 ha in total · 13 days
  9. 5,636 ha Yilgarn fire, January 2016 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 6,328 ha in total · 7 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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