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The 2024–25 Australian bushfire season [a] is the current summer season of bushfires in Australia.At the beginning of the season temperatures had been above average to high above average for most regions, with parts of Western Australia, South Australia and Queensland experiencing highest on record maximum temperatures for the winter period.
20 December through to 22 December multiple large bushfires broke out in Southern Western Australia due to hot and strong winds, with seven of these fires prompting emergency warnings. The fires have destroyed at least five homes and injured several people, including firefighters which were responding to one of the fires in the Perth Hills.
The 2023 Wanneroo bushfire was a bushfire that began on 22 November 2023 in Wanneroo, 36 kilometres (22 miles) north of the Perth central business district, in the City of Wanneroo, Western Australia. Eighteen houses were destroyed as a result of the fire and several people in the suburb were evacuated from their homes. [1] [2]
Australia's bushfire are a common and deadly threat but the early outbreak this year in the southern spring has already claimed several lives and destroyed more than 300 homes over the past week.
Western Districts bushfires Victoria 103,000 250,000 4 116 340 [citation needed] 17 December 1977 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]
SYDNEY (Reuters) -Australia's southeast on Sunday sweltered in a heat wave that raised the risk of bushfires and led authorities to issue fire bans for large swathes of New South Wales state. The ...
The 2023 Darling Downs fires was an Australian bushfire that began on 23 October 2023 after emergency warnings were issued for multiple bushfires in the Darling Downs region but particularly concentrated in the Western Downs Region and in Milmerran Woods. More than 40 fires burned across Darling Downs, with two fatalities in the town of Tara ...
The 2022–23 Australian bushfire season was the season of summer bushfires in Australia.The outlook for the season was below average in coastal parts of south-eastern Australia due to high rainfall associated with the continued La Niña climatic pattern.