Australian Government Bureau of Meteorology Tasmania
Fire Weather Forecast for Tasmania for Saturday 17 January 2026
Issued at 4:00 pm EDT on Friday 16 January 2026.
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Summary
Fire Weather District
District Rating
Max Sub Area Rating
District FBI
cHaines
Wind Change Danger Index
TAL
Minor Fuel Type Rating >= Extreme
King Island
Moderate
21
6
0
0
Flinders
Moderate
16
2
0
0
Central Coast
Moderate
12
6
35
0
Latrobe
Moderate
19
5
40
0
Kentish
Moderate
15
6
21
0
Burnie City
Moderate
14
6
18
0
Devonport City
Moderate
13
4
43
0
Circular Head
Moderate
15
8
46
0
West Tamar
Moderate
22
5
0
0
Launceston City
Moderate
20
5
0
0
George Town
High
24
5
7
0
Dorset
Moderate
23
5
0
0
Break O'Day
Moderate
19
0
0
0
Glamorgan-Spring Bay
Moderate
17
3
0
0
Sorell
Moderate
18
5
0
0
Northern Midlands
Moderate
20
4
0
0
Southern Midlands
Moderate
19
4
0
0
Upper Derwent Valley
Moderate
NA
19
6
0
0
Tasman
Moderate
20
7
0
0
Kingborough
Moderate
19
8
0
0
Clarence City
Moderate
21
5
0
0
Glenorchy City
No Rating
7
4
0
0
Hobart City
No Rating
8
4
0
0
Brighton
Moderate
20
4
0
0
Meander Valley
Moderate
18
6
1
0
Central Highlands
Moderate
18
7
0
0
Huon Valley
Moderate
20
10
0
0
Waratah-Wynyard
No Rating
8
7
32
0
West Coast
Moderate
19
9
41
0
Derwent Valley
Moderate
21
9
0
0
Note
Fire Weather District Ratings are provided in conjunction with Fire Authorities. District FBI (Fire Behaviour Index) is the representative peak FBI in the district. 10% of the Fire Weather District has a max FBI higher than this value. When the table is expanded the forecast elements in the expanded rows apply to the relevant Sub Area rather than district. Red cells indicate the value exceeds the weather alert threshold. For c-Haines this is the 95th percentile climatological value, for WCDI this is a value over 40, for Minor Fuel Type Rating this indicates Extreme or higher whilst the district rating is less than Extreme.
Saturday
Isolated light showers about the east and Bass Strait Islands. Fine elsewhere apart from patchy morning fog in the northwest. East to southeasterly winds, fresh and gusty about the Bass Strait Islands. Afternoon seabreezes about the west and northwest coast.
