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Temperature graph for Melbourne during the peak of the heatwave. A week before the fires, a significant heatwave affected southeastern Australia. From 28 to 30 January, Melbourne broke temperature records by experiencing three consecutive days above 43 °C (109 °F), with the temperature peaking at 45.1 °C (113.2 °F) on 30 January, the third hottest day in the city's history.
It had the best opening weekend for any Australian film in 2009 when it was released on Father's Day (1 September 2009). [2] The film features many small towns in country Australia. It also has a cameo by Reg Evans , who died in the 2009 Victorian bushfires before the film was released, and the film is dedicated to the victims of the fires.
State Library of Victoria's Bushfires in Victoria Research Guide Guide to locating books, government reports, websites, statistics, newspaper reports and images about Victorian bushfires from 1851 to the present. Country Fire Authority; Department of Environment, Land, Water & Planning: Fire & emergencies; VicEmergency (Incidents and warnings)
1962 Victorian bushfires Victoria 32 450 0 [13] 16 February – 13 March 1965 1965 Gippsland bushfires: Victoria 315,000 780,000 0 more than 20 60 4,000 livestock [20] 5 – 14 March 1965 Southern Highlands bushfires: New South Wales: 251,000 620,000 3 59 0 [21] 7 February 1967 Black Tuesday bushfires: Tasmania: 264,000 650,000 64 1,293 0 [10]
On 2 February 2009 a lightning strike from a thunderstorm in the area started a bushfire approximately ten kilometres from Barmedman, the New South Wales Rural Fire Service declared a Section 44 for the bushfire at 3am AEDT 3 February 2009. The fire burnt on private property and burnt approximately 320 hectares of scrub. [36] Victoria
Throughout mid-2009, the Victorian State Government has warned that the 2009–10 season has the potential to be "worse" than the 2008–09 season, however opponents suggest that this coming season has the same potential risk as several of the preceding seasons, but that increased awareness of the future bushfire season in general is a positive thing.
The Snowy River bushfire in Eastern Victoria in February 2014. The bushfire which lasted for 70 days grew to 165,800 hectares (410,000 acres) and was roughly the same size as Melbourne. Also burning were fires at Hazelwood coal mine and Kilmore; 2012–13 Australian bushfire season: 4 fatalities, 314 buildings lost
The 2006–07 season included the Victorian Alpine Fire Complex which was the longest running collection of bushfires in Victoria's history. On 1 December 2006, more than 70 fires were caused by lightning strikes in the Victorian Alps, many of which eventually merged to become the Great Divide Complex, which burned for 69 days across about a ...