Is the bushfire widget free?

Yes. It is free for any website, with no ads, cookies or tracking.

Where does the widget get its data?

From the official incident and warning feeds of every Australian state and territory fire service, the same data as the Hipponics Firewatch live map.

How often does it update?

The data refreshes about every 10 minutes and the widget reloads itself every 10 minutes.

Free live bushfire widget for your website

Last updated 23 September 2026

Put a live list of bushfires near your town on your own website: a council page, a community group, a school, a caravan park or a local news site. It is free, has no ads or tracking, and updates itself from the official state fire services every few minutes. Each fire links to its live page with the official warning.

Fires near a town

Use the town's latitude and longitude (right-click the spot in Google Maps to copy them), a radius in kilometres, and the name to show:

<iframe src="https://hipponics.com/embed/fires?near=-33.71,150.31&r=50&label=Katoomba" width="100%" height="320" style="border:0;max-width:420px" title="Live bushfires" loading="lazy"></iframe>

Fires in a state or territory

<iframe src="https://hipponics.com/embed/fires?state=nsw" width="100%" height="360" style="border:0;max-width:420px" title="Live bushfires" loading="lazy"></iframe>

Major fires across Australia

<iframe src="https://hipponics.com/embed/fires" width="100%" height="360" style="border:0;max-width:420px" title="Live bushfires" loading="lazy"></iframe>

Options

near=lat,lon: centre point. Lists every fire within the radius, most serious first, then nearest.
r=50: radius in kilometres, 5 to 300 (default 50).
state=nsw: one of nsw, vic, qld, sa, wa, tas, act, nt.
label=Katoomba: the name in the heading, "Fires near Katoomba".
limit=5: how many fires to list, 1 to 10.
theme=light: for a white page (the default is dark).

Good to know

The widget reloads itself every 10 minutes. It uses no cookies and no JavaScript.
It shows fires from the official feeds of every state and territory fire service. It is not an official warning service, and says so: people should still follow their state fire service.
If the live data cannot be reached, the widget says so rather than showing an empty list, so "nothing listed" always means nothing is listed.

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Not an official emergency service. Hipponics Firewatch aggregates public data from official fire services and satellite feeds. Always follow directions from official emergency services and call 000 in a life-threatening emergency.