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An out-of-control bushfire burned close to properties in Bundoora, a suburb of Melbourne, Victoria, on December 30.A watch and act warning was issued for the blaze, authorities said, advising ...
The 2023–24 Australian bushfire season [a] was the summer season of bushfires in Australia. The spring and summer outlook for the season prediction was for increased risk of fire for regions in Queensland, New South Wales, Victoria, South Australia and the Northern Territory. [2] [3]
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.
Map of all of the bushfires in Victoria in the last 50 years. Black Saturday bushfires at Steels Creek in 2009. The state of Victoria in Australia has had a long history of catastrophic bushfires. The most deadly of these, the Black Saturday bushfires of 2009 claiming 173 lives.
The fire burnt out about 1,800 hectares (4,448 acres) of grassland [32] 2015 Sampson Flat bushfires, South Australia: 32 houses lost, 125 outbuildings [33] [34] 2013–14 Australian bushfire season: 3 fatalities, 335 buildings lost; NASA image showing the Snowy River bushfire in Eastern Victoria at night in February 2014. The bushfire which ...
The bushfire season of the summer of 2017–18, was expected to have above normal bushfire risks with an elevated fire risk for the most of eastern and south Australian coastal areas. Australia had experienced its warmest winter on record and the ninth driest winter on record leaving dry fuel loads across much of southern Australia.
The season also suffered the most human fatalities since the 2008–09 Australian bushfire season; 6 died in Western Australia, 2 in South Australia and 1 in New South Wales. 8 deaths were as a direct result of fire, and a volunteer firefighter died due to unrelated health complications while on duty.
Australia's last two fire seasons have been subdued compared with the 2019-2020 "Black Summer" of bush fires that destroyed an area the size of Turkey, killed 33 people, 3 billion animals and ...