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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 ...
1984-85 Australian bushfire season: NSW in 1984-85, 3,500,000 hectares (8,600,000 acres) were burnt, four lives were lost, 40,000 livestock were killed and $40m damage to property was caused (RFS 2003a). 1982-1983 Australian bushfire season: The Ash Wednesday fires of 16 February 1983 caused severe damage in Victoria and South Australia. In ...
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South Australia Adelaide Hills Council: 20 December 2019 Declared safe 3 January 2020 23,295 hectares Ignited by power infrastructure 85 homes destroyed, 1 death 51 firefighters injured Dunns Road New South Wales Snowy Valleys Council [20] City of Wagga Wagga [21] 28 December 2019 Contained 2 February 2020 [22] Out 15 February 2020 [23] 333,940 ...
Three people have died, four are missing and at least 150 homes have been destroyed as bushfires rage across eastern Australia, authorities said on Saturday. The New South Wales Rural Fire Service ...
Bushfire: Western Australian bushfires: 0 160 homes 1965 Bushfire: Chatsbury bushfires: 3 59 homes 1967 Bushfire: Tasmanian fires: 62 1,293 homes Now known as Black Tuesday, 7000 left homeless as over a hundred fires burned in southern Tasmania. [47] 1969 Bushfire: 1969 bushfires: 23 [48] 230 houses, 21 other buildings and more than 12,000 stock
The last two bushfire seasons in Australia have been subdued compared with the 2019-2020 "Black Summer", when bushfires destroyed an area the size of Turkey, killing 33 people and an estimated 3 ...