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The 2023–24 bushfire season is the first full fire season with the AFDRS fully implemented, with significant issues being brought to light. An investigation revealed that the highly detailed data required for the system to produce accurate fire danger ratings was often unavailable, leading to erroneous predictions.
The 2021–22 Australian bushfire season was the season of summer bushfires in Australia. The outlook for the season was below average in parts of Eastern Australia thanks to a La Niña, with elevated fire danger in Western Australia. [2] Higher than normal winter rainfall has resulted in above average to average stream flows and soil moisture ...
Cause. Undetermined. The 2023 Darling Downs fires was an Australian bushfire that began on 23 October 2023 after emergency warnings were issued for multiple bushfires in the Darling Downs region but particularly concentrated in the Western Downs Region and in Milmerran Woods. More than 40 fires burned across Darling Downs, with two fatalities ...
The emergency warning followed the downgrading on Saturday of another bushfire, sparked earlier this week, that has killed livestock, destroyed properties and forced more than 2,000 people to ...
The 2019–20 Australian bushfire season, [a] or Black Summer, was one of the most intense and catastrophic fire seasons on record in Australia. It included a period of bushfires in many parts of Australia, which, due to its unusual intensity, size, duration, and uncontrollable dimension, was considered a megafire by media at the time.
The 2021 Beechina bushfire was a bushfire that began on 26 December 2021 in Beechina, 46 kilometres (29 miles) east-north-east of the Perth central business district, in the Shire of Mundaring, Western Australia. The bushfire began less than five kilometres from the 2021 Wooroloo bushfire, and coincided with a COVID-19 outbreak and associated ...
The 2022–23 Australian bushfire season was the season of summer bushfires in Australia. The outlook for the season was below average in coastal parts of south-eastern Australia due to high rainfall associated with the continued La Niña climatic pattern. Elevated fire danger was forecast in Central Australia, inland New South Wales, western ...
During the 1925–26 Victorian bushfire season, large areas of Gippsland in Victoria caught fire, leading to the Black Sunday fires on 14 February, when 31 people were killed in Warburton, near Melbourne. These fires remain the fifth most deadly bushfires recorded, with 60 people killed over two months.