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This is a list of major bushfires in Australia. The list contains individual bushfires and bushfire seasons that have resulted in fatalities, or bushfires that have burned in excess of 5,000 hectares (12,000 acres), or was significant for its damage to particular Australian landmarks.
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 ...
NASA MODIS burned area detections from June 2001 to May 2019 showing regions affected by fires in Australia in red. This is a list of specific seasons of bushfires in Australia including some significant bushfire events from each season. Events are listed if they cause fatalities, destroy houses, or burn more than 100,000 hectares (250,000 ...
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]
Articles relating to bushfires in Australia, uncontrolled, non-structural fires burning in a grass, scrub, bush, or forested area. Wikimedia Commons has media related to Bushfires in Australia . Australia portal
Black Thursday bushfires of 1851 (Victoria) with 5 million hectares burnt. This record was broken in the 2019/2020 Black Summer. Black Friday bushfires of 1939 (Victoria) with 2 million hectares burnt. Black Sunday bushfires of 1955 (South Australia) 1961 Western Australian bushfires with 1,800,000 hectares burnt.
2002–03 Australian bushfire season; 2004–05 Australian bushfire season; 2005–06 Australian bushfire season; 2006–07 Australian bushfire season; 2007–08 Australian bushfire season; 2008–09 Australian bushfire season; 2009–10 Australian bushfire season; 2010–11 Australian bushfire season; 2011–12 Australian bushfire season
The 1851 Black Thursday bushfires shocked colonial Australia with their ferocity, burning a quarter of what is now Victoria (around 5 million hectares (12 million acres)). [282] Lesser known is that about 117 million hectares (290 million acres), or 15 per cent of Australia's land mass, experienced fire in the summer of 1974–5. NSW was again ...