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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 ...
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 acres) of land.
1974-75 Australian bushfire season (Queensland, New South Wales, South Australia, Western Australia) Ash Wednesday bushfires of 1983 (Victoria and South Australia) with 520,000 hectares burnt. 1994 Eastern seaboard fires (New South Wales) with 800,000 hectares burnt. Black Christmas bushfires 2001–2002 (New South Wales) with 750,000 hectares ...
The 2019–20 Australian bushfire season, [a] or Black Summer, was one of the most intense and catastrophic fire seasons on record in Australia.It included a period of bushfires in many parts of Australia, which, due to its unusual intensity, size, duration, and uncontrollable dimension, was considered a megafire by media at the time.
This is a list of all major natural disasters in Australian European history. The natural disasters included here are all the notable events that resulted in significant loss of life or property due to natural, non-biological processes of the Earth within Australian territory. Due to inflation, the monetary damage estimates are not comparable.
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
The total damage amounted to $40,000,000 in 1967 Australian dollar values. [5] The resulting insurance payout was the then largest in Australian history. [6] In 2017 2 more people that had died were officially recognised as victims of the bushfires, they had previously been excluded as the deaths had not been investigated by the coroner at the ...