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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 ...
Bushfire: 71 3,700 buildings 1939–1940 Heat wave: 1939–1940 Australian heat wave: 112 [34] 1943–1944 Bushfire: 1943–44 Victorian bushfire season: 51 500 buildings Bushfires broke out in various parts of Victoria from late December 1943 to mid February 1944, resulting in 51 deaths, and destroying 500 buildings. [35] [36] 1947 Hailstorm ...
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.
The Australian Capital Territory (ACT) has a long history of bushfires. Typically, the fire season commences on 1 October and runs through until 31 March the following year. [1] During this time the ACT will commonly experience wildfires including grassfires and bushfires. Most years will have a few fires of varying sizes and impacts, but some ...
Satellite imagery from the Cooperative Institute for Research in the Atmosphere (CIRA) shows the bushfires currently tearing through parts of Queensland, Australia. Fires are shown in the video ...
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.