how bad are australian fires?
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This fire season has been one of the worst in Australia's history, with at least 15 people killed, hundreds of homes destroyed and millions of acres burned. And summer is far from over. ... The hot, dry conditions that have fueled the fires are nothing new in Australia.
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Nearly three billion animals were killed or displaced during Australia's devastating bushfires of the past year, scientists say. The findings meant it was one of "worst wildlife disasters in modern history", said the World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF), which commissioned the report.
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Australia fires burn through 15 million acres of land, kill at least 25 peopleThe fires in Australia's outback are even larger than the recent massive wildfires in California and the Amazon Rainforest, and shows how the effects of climate change reach all corners of the globe.
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The 2018 California fires killed 103 people. But the losses Australia is experiencing in lives and property are still staggering, and not yet over. At least 29 people have been killed. ... Smoke generated by the fires has blanketed Sydney, Melbourne and Canberra, at times giving them some of the worst air in the world.
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Australians are celebrating the arrival of much-needed rain in parts of the nation's bushfire-ravaged south-east. Though more wet weather is needed to end the fires, the rain has brought a welcome reprieve to many areas. Other parts, however, have not been as lucky.
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Unseasonably high temperatures and drought over the last three months have contributed to the conditions that have allowed the fires to proliferate. ... And in Australia we've just experienced record high temperatures," Mark Howden, director of the Climate Change Institute at Australian National University, told Reuters.
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Are major cities, including Sydney and Melbourne, safe from fires? Although the fires haven't ravaged Sydney or Melbourne, and have mostly been in rural areas, smoke and ash have reached coastal suburbs more than 50 miles away, causing the air quality to severely decline.
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New South Wales and Victoria have been the worst hit states. In New South Wales, fire has affected about 12 and a half million acres. In Victoria, almost 3 million acres have been burned.
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The modern world has never seen anything quite like these Australia fires. About 16 million acres have burned in New South Wales and Victoria, where the crisis is centered. That's an area about the size of West Virginia. Millions more acres have burned in other parts of the country.
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New South Wales and Victoria have been worst affected Fires have raged near the Australian capital Canberra for weeks - at one stage shutting the city's airport as flames approached the perimeter. On Friday, the worst blaze was just south of the district of Tuggeranong, a 20-minute drive south of Parliament House.
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Every state and territory in Australia has experienced fires this summer. But the biggest fires burn along stretches of the eastern and southern coast, where most of the population lives. This includes areas around Sydney and Adelaide.
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Paul Read, a lecturer and natural disasters expert at Monash University, wrote in research published last November that in general, just under 90% of Australian bushfires were caused by human activity, which includes deliberate arson, carelessness or recklessness.
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The Australian bushfires may cost the tourism industry $4.5 billion as Americans, Chinese, Brits and other holidayers stop traveling there. News of mass evacuations, burnt-out communities, dead wildlife and thick smoke haze beamed around the world have taken their toll says the tourism industry.
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Officials In Australia's New South Wales Celebrate: 'All Fires Are Now Contained' While NSW has been the worst-affected, record high temperatures and other extreme weather conditions have also led to unprecedented wildfire devastation in other regions, including Queensland and Victoria.
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Australia fires: Rain finally falls on some bushfires Some major roads were closed and residential areas flooded, but no deaths or injuries were reported. "Heavy, intense rainfall has eased, but showers and thunderstorms still possible through the weekend.
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'Unprecedented' globally: more than 20% of Australia's forests burnt in bushfires. More than 20% of Australia's forests burned during the summer's bushfire catastrophe, a proportion scientists believe is unprecedented globally, according to new research.
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The Black Saturday bushfires were a series of bushfires that either ignited or were already burning across the Australian state of Victoria on and around Saturday, 7 February 2009, and were among Australia's all-time worst bushfire disasters.