Fire Weather Warning: Darwin and Adelaide River Districts (Sep 17, 2026)
This alert is no longer in effect.
BOM issued it on September 17, 2026, 3 days ago. Warnings of this kind stay in effect for hours to a few days, so this page is a historical record of what was issued, not a current warning. For conditions where you are right now, check weather.gov (US), weather.gc.ca (Canada), the Met Office (UK), or the Bureau of Meteorology (Australia).
Areazine synthesizes this BoM weather warning directly from BOM's official public data feed. See our methodology for full source attribution and refresh cadence.
Extreme Fire Danger declared for the Darwin and Adelaide River fire weather district through Friday.
This weather record, quickly
- Record type
- Fire Weather Warning
- Affected area
- Northern Territory
- Issued
- September 17, 2026
- Issuing authority
- BOM
Fire-weather notices describe conditions that can support rapid fire spread; they do not report that a fire is present. Check local emergency sources for any active incident.
Record status: historical. It was issued 3 days ago; use the issuing agency's live warning service for current conditions in Northern Territory.
Alert Details
Fire Weather Warning IDD20320 issued by the Australian Government Bureau of Meteorology for the Darwin and Adelaide River fire weather district. The warning is a renewal with high severity and was issued at 3:27 pm CST on Thursday 17 September 2026, expiring at 00:57 am CST on Friday 18 September 2026.
Affected Areas
The warning covers the Darwin and Adelaide River fire weather district in the Northern Territory.
What You Should Do
Bushfires NT and NT Fire and Rescue Service advise residents to action your Bushfire Survival Plan now. Monitor the fire and weather situation through your local radio station, www.securent.nt.gov.au, and www.bom.gov.au. Call 000 (Triple Zero) in an emergency.
Expected Conditions
Hot and dry conditions with moderate to fresh and gusty east to southeast winds with a northeasterly sea breeze expected later in the afternoon, resulting in elevated fire dangers.
Timeline
Extreme Fire Danger is in effect for the rest of Thursday 17 September 2026 and is forecast for Friday 18 September 2026 in the Darwin and Adelaide River fire weather district. The next warning will be issued by 5:00 am CST Friday.
Original source: BOM Official Notice ↗
Related Weather Warnings
All Weather Warnings →Comparable nationwide notices (length or severity timing) 8
Two cross-category peer sets, both computed from Areazine's own archive: notices with a similar body length, and notices near the same severity and agency date. These are drawn from other categories, not the same-feed Related list above.
Similar body length
Nearest notices by article body length (1,171 characters here).
Similar severity timing
Same severity (high) notices issued closest in time to September 17, 2026.
Frequently Asked Questions
Questions readers often have about this BoM weather warning.