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2017 New South Wales bushfires New South Wales 52,000 130,000 0 35 0 [73] Early February 2019 Tingha bushfire New South Wales 23,419 57,870 0 19 [74] [75] 5 September 2019 – 2 March 2020 2019–20 Australian bushfire season (Black Summer) Nationwide 18,626,000 46,030,000 34 [j] approx. 2,600 [k] approx. 6,000
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 ...
This is a list of all major natural disasters in Australian European history. ... New South Wales bushfires: 1 2013 Cyclone: Cyclone Oswald: 7 2,520,000,000 USD (2013)
A bushfire in Australia's Victoria state more than trebled overnight and authorities urged residents in a remote part of Tasmania state to evacuate as a spring heatwave fanned fires across the ...
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.
The cloud of smoke caused by raging bushfires in Australia has been spotted more than 7,400 miles away in Chile and Argentina, weather authorities in the South American countries said on Monday.
In Western Australia, more than 20 bushfires were burning on Sunday, the state's emergency services agency said on its website, including an uncontrolled one near Pemberton, a town of around 5,000 ...