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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 ...
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 ...
The Mount Lubra bushfire, also called the Mount Warrinaburb bushfire, was a bushfire, started by a lightning strike, that burnt approximately 184,000 hectares (450,000 acres) from late on 19 January 2006 until mid-February 2006 near The Grampians in, Victoria, Australia.
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 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.
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 ...
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.
[10] 18 November 1944 1944 Blue Mountains bushfire New South Wales: 0 approx. 40: 0 [14] [15] November 1951 – January 1952 1951–52 bushfires Victoria 4,000,000 9,900,000 11 0 0 [16] 2 January 1955 Black Sunday bushfires: South Australia: 39,000–160,000 96,000–395,000 2 40 [b] 0 [17] [18] 30 November 1957 1957 Grose Valley bushfire, Blue ...