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The amount of area burnt by the original Gospers Mountain Wildfire remains contested, as a significant portion of the fire was caused by multiple, separate backburns which increased the fire area. On 10 February 2020, NSW Rural Fire Service announced a torrential rain event over the preceding week had extinguished the Gospers Mountain fire. [91 ...
2019 – Gospers Mountain bushfire – Starting on 29 October 2019, this rapidly became the largest single-ignition fire from lightning strike Australia has ever seen, reaching over 512,000 hectares (1,980 sq mi) with a perimeter of 1,503 kilometres (934 mi), the Gospers Mountain Fire has officially been set to contained on 13 January 2020, at ...
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 ...
A major fire burning in the Wollemi National Park area of New South Wales had burned 401,754 hectares, or 1,550 square miles – an area larger than the state of Rhode Island – by the early ...
The New South Wales Rural Fire Services issued an emergency warning to residents in the Hawkesbury area to Sydney’s northwest, on Tuesday, November 19, as the Gospers Mountain Fire continued to ...
Fire crews worked through the night into Sunday, December 15, to build containment lines around the giant Gospers Mountain blaze, which had been burning in the Hawkesbury region north-west of ...
In December 2019, Berambing was severely impacted by the Gospers Mountain bushfire. In an effort to contain the massive fire firefighters had commenced a large backburn in the Mount Wilson and Mount Irvine areas, but with the dry conditions, heavy fuel loads and erratic weather conditions, the backburn quickly grew out of control.
New South Wales firefighters battled part of the Gospers Mountain ‘megafire’ that was threatening properties in the Hawkesbury region on Tuesday, December 10.The Gospers Mountain bushfire had ...