Hobart fire map — current fire incidents near Hobart
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3 active fire incidents near Hobart — none currently at Watch and Act or above.
- Colebrook fire, TAS — Advice
- New Norfolk fire, TAS — Advice
- Seven Mile Beach fire, TAS — Advice
Official agency feeds, as at 4 October 2026 at 3:15 am AEDT. Planned burns excluded. Counted within 60 km of the area the map opens on.
Hobart is one of the few Australian capitals where the bush runs right into the suburbs: the forested slopes of kunanyi / Mount Wellington sit directly above Fern Tree, South Hobart and Lenah Valley. Hipponics Firewatch plots current fires and warnings from the Tasmania Fire Service across greater Hobart and the south — Kingston, New Norfolk, the Huon Valley, Sorell and the Tasman Peninsula — alongside satellite hotspots and live conditions.
Open the live Hobart fire map →What the Hobart map shows
- Live incidents and TFS warnings (Advice, Watch and Act, Emergency Warning) for Hobart and southern Tasmania
- Satellite hotspots from Himawari, MODIS and VIIRS — early detection over the south-west wilderness and the Huon forests
- Fire Danger Ratings and the hot, dry north-westerlies that drive the worst Tasmanian fire days
- Smoke and air quality — Hobart regularly sits under smoke from fires in the south and south-west
- A watch zone around your street that pushes a notification when a fire approaches
Hobart bushfire history & context
Hobart has lived through some of the worst fires in Australian history. On Black Tuesday, 7 February 1967, fires driven by hot north-westerly winds burned into the city’s suburbs and surrounding towns, killing 62 people and destroying around 1,300 homes. In January 2013 the Forcett fire swept through Dunalley, destroying well over 100 homes. In the summer of 2018–19, fires burned around 200,000 hectares of Tasmania, and in the Huon Valley the Riveaux Road fire threatened Geeveston, Franklin and Huonville for weeks. Bushland on the mountain above the city, towns in forested valleys and hot, dry north-westerlies on the worst days mean leaving early is the safest plan when the fire danger is Extreme or Catastrophic. Hipponics Firewatch is a situational-awareness tool, not a replacement for official warnings.
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