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In each instance the NSW Rural Fire Service described the escaped backburns as the "Gospers Mountain Fire", even though in many cases, the backburns were ignited separately. The area burnt by these escaped backburns accounted for over 130,000 hectares - nearly a quarter of the total size of the Gospers Mountain Fire. [141]
Border Fire New South Wales Bega Valley Shire [10] 192,489 hectares (as of 15 February 2020) [3] Border Trail Fire New South Wales Kyogle Council. Tenterfield Shire Council. early November 2019 [11] [12] At least 6,400 hectares [13] Buldah Victoria Busby's Flat Road New South Wales Richmond Valley Council: Calabash New South Wales Snowy Monaro ...
Properties were destroyed in the Blue Mountains town of Lithgow, New South Wales, on December 21, as firefighters battled an ember attack from the Gospers Mountain fire.The NSW Rural Fire Service ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
Blue Mountains Fires 1977 New South Wales 54,000 130,000 2 49 0 [citation needed] 4 April 1978 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]