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Wildfires in Queensland

Queensland, Australia: 1,758 fires with a page have entered 63 of its 75 local government areas since 2016, burning 29,245,473 hectares inside the region. The largest was Central Highlands (Qld) in 8 September 2023, with 340,544 hectares inside the region. Fire danger today: low (FWI 8).

Only fires of 5,000 ha or more get an entry: smaller ones are not in the lists or the totals on this page.

hectares burned
29,245,473ha
Since 2016
Of the region
16%
1,782,676 km²
fires
1,758
Since 2016
municipalities with fire
63
of 75
Largest fire
340,544ha
Central Highlands (Qld) · 8 September 2023
Inhabitants
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Fire danger, today and the coming days

FWI at the region centre, from the Open-Meteo forecast
  1. Tue 27 Low 33° · 43 % · 30 km/h
  2. Wed 28 Low 33° · 43 % · 35 km/h
  3. Thu 29 Low 34° · 40 % · 30 km/h
  4. Fri 30 Moderate 33° · 39 % · 34 km/h
  5. Sat 31 Very low 32° · 40 % · 31 km/h
  6. Sun 1 Low 33° · 41 % · 27 km/h
  7. Mon 2 Moderate 33° · 38 % · 28 km/h
  8. Tue 3 Moderate 34° · 39 % · 35 km/h

Burning now in the region

Click a perimeter to see which fire it is

Hectares per year

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Which months burn

JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec

Hectares burned inside the region by starting month, adding all years since 2016.

The municipalities that burned most

  1. Cook 8,354,215 ha · 78 %
  2. Mareeba 3,374,457 ha · 63 %
  3. Etheridge 1,936,449 ha · 49 %
  4. Croydon 1,770,065 ha · 60 %
  5. Mount Isa 1,418,069 ha · 32 %
  6. Charters Towers 1,288,852 ha · 19 %
  7. Burke 1,165,091 ha · 29 %
  8. Central Highlands (Qld) 1,099,885 ha · 18 %
  9. Carpentaria 1,075,950 ha · 17 %
  10. Cloncurry 926,435 ha · 19 %
  11. Aurukun 665,036 ha · 89 %
  12. Maranoa 641,905 ha · 11 %

Municipalities that burn again and again

Municipalities with two or more large fires (1,000 ha or more) since 2016.

Largest recorded fires

Hectares inside the region; the fire may have burned more outside it.

Year by year

Yearfireshectares burnedLargest of the year
20261592,097,539 Mareeba 104,119 ha
20252925,405,507 Etheridge 328,247 ha
20241823,715,459 Charters Towers 199,181 ha
20232054,912,078 Central Highlands (Qld) 340,544 ha
20221051,131,758 Aurukun 80,033 ha
20211361,731,591 Cook 66,921 ha
20201302,001,233 Cook 250,116 ha
20191672,594,704 Mareeba 133,882 ha
20181212,036,450 Cook 117,646 ha
20171211,412,191 Livingstone 112,370 ha
20161402,206,963 Cook 200,890 ha

All fires in Queensland · 1758

Newest first. The figure is the area inside the region; if the fire burned more outside, the total is shown.

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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