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The 2024–25 Australian bushfire season [a] is the current summer season of bushfires in Australia. At the beginning of the season temperatures had been above average to high above average for most regions, with parts of Western Australia, South Australia and Queensland experiencing highest on record maximum temperatures for the winter period ...
Population growth in metros with people in areas of high wildfire risk increased by roughly 70% between 1990 and 2020 whereas the population in the average American metro area increased by about 40%.
[91] [92] As of early November, this season had more homes lost than the 2019–20 Australian bushfire season, which destroyed 49. [90] 4 November a firefighting aircraft was deployed from Toowoomba to Mount Isa to map fires burning in Western Queensland. The aircraft crashed near the Eloise Copper Mine killing all three people onboard. [93]
The 2023 Darling Downs fires was an Australian bushfire that began on 23 October 2023 after emergency warnings were issued for multiple bushfires in the Darling Downs region but particularly concentrated in the Western Downs Region and in Milmerran Woods. More than 40 fires burned across Darling Downs, with two fatalities in the town of Tara ...
Local Government Area(s) Start Date Contained / Cease Date Area impacted Comments Adaminaby Complex New South Wales Snowy Monaro Regional Council [1] 31/12/2019 [2] Out on 16/02/2020 [2] 98,485 hectares (as of 15 February 2020) [3] Ignited by several lightning strikes [2] Anderson's Creek New South Wales Bellingen Shire Council. Nambucca Valley ...
The Border 2 Fire was discovered around 2:30 p.m. PT in the Otay Mountain Wilderness Area about 30 miles southeast of the ... Sign up to get current wildfire updates by location. Border 2 Fire map.
Firefighting and recovery efforts continue in the Los Angeles area, where devastating fires have killing at least 28 people, destroyed more than 12,000 structures and prompted evacuation orders ...
The 2019–20 Australian bushfire season, [a] or Black Summer, was one of the most intense and catastrophic fire seasons on record in Australia.It included a period of bushfires in many parts of Australia, which, due to its unusual intensity, size, duration, and uncontrollable dimension, was considered a megafire by media at the time.