History of Fires in Australia

Arson, mischief and recklessness: 87 per cent of fires are man-made

There are, on average, 62,000 fires in Australia every year. Only a very small number strike far from populated areas and satellite studies ...

Studies still uncovering true extent of 2019-20 Australia wildfire ...

Australia's 2019-20 bushfires burned with unprecedented intensity through a total of 24 million hectares (59 million acres), an area the size of ...

Australian wildfires - RGS - Royal Geographical Society

2019 was Australia's hottest year on record, 1.5°C above the long-term 1961-1990 average. Australia had its driest ever year in 2019, with rainfall being 40 ...

Australian fires had bigger impact on climate than covid-19 ...

The 2019 to 2020 Australian wildfire season was historic. More than 42 million acres burned in an unprecedented outbreak of extreme fires, which ...

Causes of the Widespread 2019–2020 Australian Bushfire Season

The results indicate that the ongoing drought, surface soil moisture, wind speed, relative humidity, heat waves, dead and live fuel moisture, and land cover ...

Australian Bushfires - (Honors World History) - Fiveable

Australian bushfires refer to the uncontrolled fires that occur in the bushlands of Australia, often exacerbated by hot, dry weather and strong winds.

ACT and south-west NSW bushfires, 1951

From October 1951 to January 1952, a number of fires burned across the Australian Capital Territory (ACT) and New South Wales (NSW). Approximately 5,000 fires ...

Forest fire data - DAFF

During the 2019-20 bushfire season, the southern and eastern parts of Australia experienced multiple large-scale and intense fires. This set of ...

Australia's fires 'killed or harmed three billion animals' - BBC

The recent bushfires were "one of the worst wildlife disasters in modern history", conservationists say.

The World's First Wildfire Tornado Blazed a Path of Destruction ...

There was no name for the thing Tom Bates captured on video at the height of the notorious Australian bush fire season of 2002-2003. Prior to ...

Black Friday Fires in Victoria, Australia (1939) - This Day in History

One of Australia's worst natural disasters took place in January 1939, when bushfires broke out in the state of Victoria. Over the course of ...

Police in Australia accuse 24 of deliberately setting bushfires ... - CNN

Dry lightning was responsible for starting a number of fires in Victoria's East Gippsland region in late December, which then traveled more than ...

Australian wildfires declared among the 'worst wildlife disasters in ...

Australian wildfires declared among the 'worst wildlife disasters in modern history' ... The report by the World Wild Fund for Nature found that ...

Wild Australia: After the Fires | Nature of Things - CBC

'The Forever Fires' of Australia's Black summer are now recognized as the worst wildlife disaster in modern history. But the tragedy has also set the nation ...

This is how most bushfires in Australia start, and how we know - ABC

The nine categories of bushfire ignition · Smoking: Smoking isn't as common a source of bushfire ignition as we might think. · Burning off/debris: ...

A look into the history of Australian bushfires - PULSE

Since September 2019, Australia has been on fire. Satellite images portray a country whose south coast is hidden in smoke, with orange red, ...

Why These Australia Fires Are Like Nothing We've Seen Before

Australia has had deadlier fire seasons: The Black Saturday bushfires, which began in February 2009 when downed power lines ignited blazes that ...

Past Bushfires in Australia - Bureau of Meteorology

The Victorian bushfires of 7 February 2009 occurred during very dangerous fire weather conditions. Exceptional heatwave conditions had developed over inland ...

Australian fires: Everything we know about the crisis and how you ...

Australia is facing an unprecedented national crisis, as bushfires tear through rural communities across the nation. Since September, at least 25 people ...

Australia's Fires Have Ignited a Reckoning with History - Medium

A similar realisation seems to be happening across Australian society in the aftermath of the wildfires. Although climate change has clearly ...