Australia Fires 2020 Size

In Victoria the rain that is giving bushfire.

Australia fires 2020 size. More than 107m hectares of land have burnt so far in Australias bushfires larger than the total area of South. As of January 7 2020 the bushfire season consumed 20800000 acres 8400000 hectares of land the equivalent to 84 million football fields. Putting out a spot fire near Moruya Australia Jan.

Edward Island and are nearly 10 times the size of the Fort McMurray fires. 7 2020 32400 square miles an area of land a little smaller than Indiana have burned since the Australia wildfires also called bushfires began. As of Jan.

The fires have been so intense that the. Although Australia has always had bushfires this season has been worse than usual. In August 2019 25 million hectares of forest were destroyed -- compared to the six million hectares of Australian land which have been razed thus far.

In NSW more than 13mm fell at Merimbula on Monday 98mm at Bega and 2mm at Nowra and Lake Conjola. The mega wildfires started in June 2019 and continued through 2020 affecting seven states and territories. Various sources quoted an incident update from the South Australian Country Fire Service CFS on 31 January 2020 which reported that 210606 hectares of land on Kangaroo Island about 48 per cent of the Island had been burned.

Since the start of the bushfire season in September an estimated 255 million acres have burned according to Reuters and at least 25 people have died. NSW police have charged at least 24 people with deliberately starting bushfires and have taken legal action against 183 people for fire-related offenses since. The fire burned out around 180 ha 440 acres of grass and swampland.

Duranbah Fire In mid-August 2020 a bushfire starting from a burn off quickly got out of control in grassy vegetation in the Duranbah region. In NSW the massive Gospers Mountain fire alone has burned more than 12 million acres making it the biggest forest fire in Australian history. 1 2019 and Jan.