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1978 Western Australian bushfires Western Australia 114,000 280,000 2 0 6 [citation needed] December 1979 1979 Sydney bushfires New South Wales 5 28 0 [30] 3 November 1980 1980 Waterfall bushfire New South Wales 1,000,000 2,500,000 5 [e] 14 0 [31] 9 January 1983 Grays Point bushfire New South Wales 3 [f] 0 0 [32] 16 February 1983 Ash Wednesday ...
The 2023–24 Australian bushfire season [a] was the summer season of bushfires in Australia. The spring and summer outlook for the season prediction was for increased risk of fire for regions in Queensland, New South Wales, Victoria, South Australia and the Northern Territory. [2] [3]
The 2024–25 Australian bushfire season [a] is the current summer season of bushfires in Australia.At the beginning of the season mean temperatures had been above average to very much above average for most areas, with parts of Western Australia, South Australia and Queensland experiencing highest on record maximum temperatures for the winter period.
1984-85 Australian bushfire season: NSW in 1984-85, 3,500,000 hectares (8,600,000 acres) were burnt, four lives were lost, 40,000 livestock were killed and $40m damage to property was caused (RFS 2003a). 1982-1983 Australian bushfire season: The Ash Wednesday fires of 16 February 1983 caused severe damage in Victoria and South Australia. In ...
Further, ABC News reported arson was of little impact – accounting for around 1% of NSW fires and 0.3% of Victorian fires by 18 January 2020. [415] [416] The NSW Rural Fire Service referred numerous individuals to the NSW Police; 24 people were charged with arson, allegedly starting bushfires.
From mid-morning, McArthur's fire danger index was in excess of 100 in several places in Victoria and South Australia. [22] It would be one of the worst fire weather days in south-east Australia since the disastrous Black Friday bushfires in 1939. [23] The first fire was reported at 11:30 am at McLaren Flat, south of Adelaide. Within hours ...
The 2022–23 Australian bushfire season was the season of summer bushfires in Australia.The outlook for the season was below average in coastal parts of south-eastern Australia due to high rainfall associated with the continued La Niña climatic pattern.
According to Tim Flannery (The Future Eaters), fire is one of the most important forces at work in the Australian environment.Some plants have evolved a variety of mechanisms to survive or even require bushfires (possessing epicormic shoots or lignotubers that sprout after a fire, or developing fire-resistant or fire-triggered seeds), or even encourage fire (eucalypts contain flammable oils in ...