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A fire near Mount French was contained on 13 October, after emergency warnings issued earlier to communities around the area were downgraded. The fire destroyed two sheds. A second fire in the Western Downs region also prompted emergency warnings, but was downgraded by that night. [84]
1 13 Numerous Sheds [41] 4 December 2002 2002 NSW Bushfires New South Wales 1 20 Significant damage to Holsworthy Army Base [42] [43] 18 – 22 January 2003 2003 Canberra bushfires: Australian Capital Territory: 160,000 400,000 4 approx. 500: 0 [36] 8 January – 8 March 2003 2003 Eastern Victorian alpine bushfires: Victoria 1,300,000 3,200,000 ...
Joined with the Good Good fire and the Werri Berri fire [4] Bees Nest New South Wales Armidale Regional Council. Clarence Valley Council. August 31, 2019 [5] 100 000+ hectares [6] Earliest mega-fire of the Black Summer (beginning in the winter of 2019) [7] [8] [9] Big Jack Mountain New South Wales Bega Valley Shire 19,633 hectares (as of 15 ...
Smaller fires in the area include the Erskine Creek fire. [91] Additional fires in Balmoral, at the south eastern extent of the Blue Mountains, were also caused by NSW Rural Fire Service backburning. [150] The Gospers Mountain fire was widely reported as the largest forest fire ever recorded in Australia, burning more than 500,000 hectares.
Fires on the Central Coast were centred around the Lake Munmorah area. The Ruttleys Road fire [49] posed a potential threat to properties in Nords Wharf, Cams Wharf, Catherine Hill Bay, Gwandalan and Summerland Point. The fire peaked on 18 October, with the main concern placed on residents living in the Chain Valley Bay area. [50]
Total fire bans were in place in all those localities. [14] On 29 November 2020, three fires flared to Watch and Act level as a result of a heatwave of up to 40 °C (104 °F), and 90 km/h (56 mph) winds that had been wreaking havoc since 28 November. The first fire began in the suburb of Northmead, threatening homes there. Multiple RFS crews ...
On 16 December, two fires ignited in the Barossa Valley area. A firefighter was injured while containing a grassfire that burnt through 700 ha (1,700 acres) near Springton . The second fire, near Angaston , burned through 1,400 ha (3,500 acres) and caused extensive damage to the vineyards of Hutton Vale winery , before being extinguished.
The most destructive bushfire season in terms of property loss since the 2008–09 Australian bushfire season, occurred in the summer of 2015–16, with the loss of 408 houses and at least 500 non-residential buildings as a result of wild fires between 1 June 2015 and 31 May 2016.