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A wildfire, forest fire, or a bushfire is an unplanned, uncontrolled and unpredictable fire in an area of combustible vegetation. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] Depending on the type of vegetation present, a wildfire may be more specifically identified as a bushfire ( in Australia ), desert fire, grass fire, hill fire, peat fire, prairie fire, vegetation fire, or ...
Wildfires can happen in many places in the United States, especially during droughts, but are most common in the Western United States and Florida. [1]Average U.S. acreage burned annually by wildfires has almost tripled in three decades.
An ember attack is when, during a bushfire, embers (also known as firebrands) such as burning twigs, bark fragments, moss or leaves become temporarily airborne and are carried by winds in a cluster. Fuel characteristics that make plentiful and efficient firebrands are not definitely known.
Authorities have recently warned the fires are an omen of a severe bushfire season this summer. And that the fires have never been this severe in Australia's spring time. 12-year-old questioned ...
The 2013 Tasmanian bushfires were a series of bushfires which occurred in south-eastern Tasmania, Australia, between November 2012 and late April 2013. [ 7 ] [ 8 ] The fires burnt approximately 20,000 hectares (49,000 acres) of mixed resident land and native forest.
The Red Tuesday bushfires occurred on 1 February 1898 in South Gippsland, Victoria, Australia. The bushfires claimed 12 lives, destroyed over 2,000 buildings, [1] and affected about 15,000 people, leaving 2,500 homeless. [2] A total area of 260,000 hectares (640,000 acres) of bushland and farmland was destroyed by the fires. [3]
It is most commonly a natural phenomenon, created during some of the largest bushfires and wildfires. Although the term has been used to describe certain large fires, [ 1 ] the phenomenon's determining characteristic is a fire with its own storm-force winds from every point of the compass towards the storm's center, where the air is heated and ...
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 ...