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Wildfires in York

York, Australia, has had 13 large fires recorded by GWIS since 2016: 64,375 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 30% of its area. Fire danger today: moderate (FWI 20).

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 Moderate 18° · 27 % · 43 km/h
  2. Sun 25 Moderate 19° · 25 % · 46 km/h
  3. Mon 26 Very low 21° · 26 % · 35 km/h
  4. Tue 27 Moderate 24° · 24 % · 43 km/h
  5. Wed 28 Moderate 26° · 25 % · 41 km/h
  6. Thu 29 Moderate 28° · 29 % · 41 km/h
  7. Fri 30 Moderate 24° · 34 % · 46 km/h
  8. Sat 31 Very low 20° · 66 % · 42 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

64,375
hectares burned
30 %
of its area
13
fires
2,138
km²

How many times has York burned?

York has burned 13 times since 2016, in 9 years: 2016, 2017, 2018, 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023, 2025 and 2026. The most recent: York fire, April 2026, with 21,853 hectares inside the municipality. Together they add up to 64,375 hectares burned inside the municipality, but the distinct burned area is 41,876 hectares, 20 % of its surface: part of it burned more than once.

  1. 1× 16
  2. 2× 17
  3. 2× 18
  4.   19
  5. 2× 20
  6. 1× 21
  7. 2× 22
  8. 1× 23
  9.   24
  10. 1× 25
  11. 1× 26
13
fires
9
years with fire
64,375
cumulative ha
41,876
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 York

  1. 21,853 ha York fire, April 2026 where it started 10% of the municipality · 21,773 ha in total · 16 days
  2. 6 ha Beverley fire, April 2025 0.0% of the municipality · 5,988 ha in total · 5 days
  3. 3,144 ha Beverley fire, April 2023 1.5% of the municipality · 8,062 ha in total · 6 days
  4. 303 ha Armadale fire, September 2022 0.1% of the municipality · 8,451 ha in total · 6 days
  5. 2,984 ha York fire, April 2022 where it started 1.4% of the municipality · 5,438 ha in total · 4 days
  6. 6,624 ha York fire, May 2021 where it started 3.1% of the municipality · 6,613 ha in total · 5 days
  7. 345 ha Armadale fire, May 2020 0.2% of the municipality · 7,233 ha in total · 6 days
  8. 7,736 ha Beverley fire, May 2020 3.6% of the municipality · 9,320 ha in total · 5 days
  9. 7,410 ha York fire, May 2018 where it started 3.5% of the municipality · 7,887 ha in total · 16 days
  10. 9,731 ha York fire, April 2018 where it started 4.6% of the municipality · 9,806 ha in total · 7 days
  11. 1,077 ha York fire, May 2017 where it started 0.5% of the municipality · 5,298 ha in total · 5 days
  12. 344 ha Beverley fire, April 2017 0.2% of the municipality · 15,741 ha in total · 9 days
  13. 2,818 ha Beverley fire, October 2016 1.3% of the municipality · 11,595 ha in total · 17 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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