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Wildfire near Cloncurry, Australia

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GDACS has tracked this wildfire near Cloncurry, Australia since November 5, 2026, 2 days as of its latest update on November 7. It carries a GREEN alert: limited humanitarian impact expected. Satellites put the burned area at 80,000 acres (32,375 hectares, 324 km²), roughly 5.5 times the size of Manhattan, or about 60,606 American football fields.

TypeWildfire
GDACS alertGreen
CountryAustralia
SinceNov 5, 2026
Tracked for2 days
Burned area32,375 ha · 80,000 acres
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How the size is measured

GDACS estimates burned areas from satellite data, so the figures cover the whole fire complex and may include several fires burning close together.

GDACS report. Source: GDACS, the Global Disaster Alert and Coordination System of the United Nations and the European Commission (CC BY 4.0).

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