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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.
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.
Common causes of bushfire, figures for Victoria over a 20-year period. [15] Lightning is the most common cause, igniting the highest number of bushfires, which subsequently account for nearly half of the area burnt by bushfires in the state. Deliberately lit fires are the next most common, although burn much less area than fires ignited by ...
Central Victoria bushfires Victoria 50,800 126,000 3 180 0 [citation needed] 27 December 1993 – 16 January 1994: 1994 Eastern seaboard fires: New South Wales 400,000 990,000 4 225 0 [35] 8 January 1997 Wooroloo bushfire Western Australia 10,500 26,000 0 16 0 [citation needed] 21 January 1997 Dandenongs bushfire Victoria 400 990 3 41 0 [36]
The fire burnt out about 1,800 hectares (4,448 acres) of grassland [32] 2015 Sampson Flat bushfires, South Australia: 32 houses lost, 125 outbuildings [33] [34] 2013–14 Australian bushfire season: 3 fatalities, 335 buildings lost; NASA image showing the Snowy River bushfire in Eastern Victoria at night in February 2014. The bushfire which ...
The main fire burnt over 1,300,000 hectares (3,200,000 acres) over 59 days before it was contained on 7 March 2003. 41 homes and 213 other structures were destroyed, along with tree bridges, and 10,000 livestock were killed. Thousands of kilometres of fencing was also destroyed. This was the longest running fire until the 2006-07 Great Divide ...
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1925–26 Victorian bushfire season; 1943–44 Australian bushfire season; 1943–44 Victorian bushfire season; 1965 Gippsland Bushfires; 1996–97 Australian bushfire season; 2003 Eastern Victorian alpine bushfires; 2006–07 Australian bushfire season; 2006–07 Eastern Victoria Great Divide bushfires; 2009 Victorian Bushfires Royal Commission