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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]
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 fire crossed to the west of Mount York Road and threatened properties in the Kanimbla and Megalong valleys. [40] Back burning efforts by the RFS overnight on 21–22 October introduced 'The Plug', which forced the deliberate merger of the Mount Victoria fire with the fires that originated near Lithgow. [26] 'The Plug' was the brain child of ...
Lithgow bushfire New South Wales 2 [g] 0 0 [36] 2 December 1997 Menai bushfire New South Wales 1 [h] 11 0 [37] 2 December 1997 Perth and South-West Region bushfires Western Australia 23,000 57,000 2 1 0 [citation needed] 2 December 1998 Linton bushfire: Victoria 5 [i] 0 0 [38] 25 December 2001 – 7 January 2002 Black Christmas bushfires: New ...
An intense bushfire blazed through at least 150 hectares in Western Australia’s Forrestdale, near Perth, on February 7, according to reports. Footage filmed February 11 shows the scorched ...
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 ...
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 ...