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Bushfires In Victoria (Australia)
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. Legislation, planning, management and suppression are the responsibilities of the Victorian State Government By number of fires *Lightning - 26% *Deliberate - 25% *Agricultural - 16% *Campfire - 10% *Cigarettes/Matches - 7% *Unknown Causes - 6% *Misc - 5% *Machinery/Exhausts - 3% *Planned burn escapes - 2% *Public Utilities - 1% By area burnt *Lightning - 46% *Public Utilities - 14% *Deliberate - 14% *Misc - 9% *Agricultural - 7% *Planned burn escapes - 5% *Unknown Causes - 3% *Machinery/Exhaust - 2% *Campfire - 1% *Cigarettes/Matches - less than 1% Major Victorian Bushfires Most extensive fires *1851 - 6 February "Black Thursday" (5 million hectares) *1938-39 - December - January " Black Friday" (2 million hectares) *2020 - 3 January " Victoria/NSW Mega Blaze" (1.5+ million hectares) *2003 - January - ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bushfires In Victoria
The state of Victoria (Australia), Victoria in Australia has had a long history of catastrophic Bushfires in Australia, bushfires. The most deadly of these, the Black Saturday bushfires of 2009 claiming 173 lives. Legislation, planning, management and suppression are the responsibilities of the Government of Victoria (Australia), Victorian State Government By number of fires *Lightning - 26% *Deliberate - 25% *Agricultural - 16% *Campfire - 10% *Cigarettes/Matches - 7% *Unknown Causes - 6% *Misc - 5% *Machinery/Exhausts - 3% *Planned burn escapes - 2% *Public Utilities - 1% By area burnt *Lightning - 46% *Public Utilities - 14% *Deliberate - 14% *Misc - 9% *Agricultural - 7% *Planned burn escapes - 5% *Unknown Causes - 3% *Machinery/Exhaust - 2% *Campfire - 1% *Cigarettes/Matches - less than 1% Major Victorian Bushfires Most extensive fires *1851 - 6 February "Black Thursday bushfires, Black Thursday" (5 million hectares) *1938-39 - December - January "Black Friday (1 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2003 Eastern Victorian Alpine Bushfires
The Eastern Victorian alpine bushfires were a series of bushfires in 2003 that burnt in the Alpine National Park and Mount Buffalo National Park in north-eastern Victoria, Australia. The bushfire started with eighty-seven fires that were started by lightning in the north east of Victoria on 8 January 2003. Eight of these fires were unable to be contained and joined to form the largest fire in Victoria since the 1939 " Black Friday" bushfires. The main fire burnt over over 59 days before it was contained on 7 March 2003. 41 homes and 213 other structures were destroyed, along with tree bridges, and 10,000 livestock were killed. Thousands of kilometres of fencing was also destroyed. This was the longest running fire until the 2006–07 Great Divide fires. In early February, at the peak of the fires, around 3,760 people were involved in the fire effort, excluding local Country Fire Authority brigades. This figure includes 160 Australian Defence Force staff, over 300 interstate f ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Aerial Firefighting And Forestry In Southern Australia
The development of aerial firefighting and forestry in southern Australia ran in parallel with the rapid improvements in aircraft technology over the last century. As more advanced and capable aircraft became available firefighters and foresters quickly sought opportunities to utilise and adapt them. Aircraft have three main advantages over ground resources: speed, access, and observation. Aircraft have been used for a wide range of tasks including reconnaissance, firebombing, crew transport, aerial ignition, back burning, gathering infrared imagery as well as operational forestry tasks like aerial photography, surveys, spraying, fertilising and seeding. Much of the early pioneering work in Australia was led by the Forests Commission Victoria in collaboration with other State forestry and fire authorities including the Forests Department (Western Australia), Western Australia Forests Department, Forestry Commission of NSW, Woods and Forest Department of South Australia and Forestry ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2019–20 Australian Bushfire Season
The 201920 Australian bushfire season commenced with serious uncontrolled fires in June 2019. , fires this season have burned an estimated , destroyed over 5,900 buildings (including 2,779 homes) and killed at least 34 people. An estimated one billion animals were killed and some endangered species may be driven to extinction. Air quality has dropped to hazardous levels. The cost of dealing with the bushfires is expected to exceed the $4.4 billion of the 2009 Black Saturday fires, and tourism sector revenues have fallen more than $1 billion. By 7 January 2020, the smoke had moved approximately across the South Pacific Ocean to Chile and Argentina. As of 2 January 2020, NASA estimated that of CO had been emitted. From September 2019 fires heavily impacted various regions of the state of New South Wales. In eastern and north-eastern Victoria large areas of forest burnt out of control for four weeks before the fires emerged from the forests in late December. Multiple s ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2015–16 Australian Bushfire Season
The most destructive bushfire season in terms of property loss since the 2008–09 Australian bushfire season, occurred in the summer of 2015–16, with the loss of 408 houses and at least 500 non-residential buildings as a result of wild fires between 1 June 2015 and 31 May 2016. The season also suffered the most human fatalities since the 2008–09 Australian bushfire season; 6 died in Western Australia, 2 in South Australia and 1 in New South Wales. 8 deaths were as a direct result of fire, and a volunteer firefighter died due to unrelated health complications while on duty. The season witnessed four notable fires; the Cascades fire in Western Australia, the Pinery fire in South Australia, the Great Ocean Road fire in Victoria, and the Harvey-Waroona fire in Western Australia. Climate summary and predictions A longer, more severe season was predicted, with an above normal potential for bushfires—particularly along the west and east coasts—as the result of the stre ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Wildfire
A wildfire, forest fire, or a bushfire is an unplanned and uncontrolled fire in an area of Combustibility and flammability, combustible vegetation. Depending on the type of vegetation present, a wildfire may be more specifically identified as a bushfire (Bushfires in Australia, in Australia), desert fire, grass fire, hill fire, Peat#Peat fires, peat fire, prairie fire, vegetation fire, or veld fire. Some natural forest ecosystems Fire ecology, depend on wildfire. Modern forest management often engages in prescribed burns to mitigate fire risk and promote natural forest cycles. However, controlled burns can turn into wildfires by mistake. Wildfires can be classified by cause of ignition, physical properties, combustible material present, and the effect of weather on the fire. Wildfire severity results from a combination of factors such as available fuels, physical setting, and weather. Climatic cycles with wet periods that create substantial fuels, followed by drought and heat, of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1943–44 Victorian Bushfire Season
The 1943–44 Victorian bushfire season was marked by a series of major Bushfires in Australia, bushfires following severe drought conditions in the state of Victoria (Australia), Victoria in Australia. The summer of 1943–44 was the driest summer ever recorded in Melbourne with just 46 mm falling, a third of the average for the period. Between 22 December and 15 February 51 people were killed, 700 injured, and 650 buildings were destroyed across the state. Many personnel who would have been normally available for fire fighting duties had been posted overseas and to remote areas of Australia during World War II. 22 December 1943 The first major fire was a grassfire at Wangaratta on 22 December which burnt hundreds of hectares and resulted in the deaths of 10 volunteer firefighters near Tarrawingee, Victoria, Tarrawingee. The fire started a short distance away from the Bowser, Victoria, Bowser railway yard. It is unclear how it started but the fire spread quickly and head ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1925–26 Victorian Bushfire Season
A series of major Bushfires in Australia, bushfires occurred between 26 January and 10 March 1926 in the state of Victoria (Australia), Victoria in Australia. A total of 60 people were killed with 700 injured, and 1000 buildings and 390,000 ha were destroyed across the south-east of the state. On 14 February, later referred to as Black Sunday, bushfires swept across Gippsland, the Yarra Valley, the Dandenong Ranges and the Kinglake, Victoria, Kinglake area. The fires had originated in forest areas on 26 January, but wind gusts of up to 97 km per hour led to the joining of the fire fronts on 14 February. In the Warburton, Victoria, Warburton area, 31 deaths were recorded including 14 at Wooley's Mill in Gilderoy, Victoria, Gilderoy, 6 at Big Pats Creek, Victoria, Big Pats Creek and 2 at Powelltown, Victoria, Powelltown. Other affected settlements included Noojee, Victoria, Noojee, Erica, Victoria, Erica and Kinglake, Victoria, Kinglake, where St Mary's Church and Thompson's ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Red Tuesday
The Red Tuesday bushfires occurred on 1 February 1898 in South Gippsland, Victoria, Australia. The bushfires A wildfire, forest fire, or a bushfire is an unplanned and uncontrolled fire in an area of Combustibility and flammability, combustible vegetation. Depending on the type of vegetation present, a wildfire may be more specifically identified as a ... claimed 12 lives, destroyed over 2,000 buildings, and affected about 15,000 people, leaving 2,500 homeless. A total area of of bushland and farmland was destroyed by the fires. References External linksState Library of Victoria's Bushfires in Victoria Research GuideGuide to locating books, government reports, websites, statistics, newspaper reports and images about the Red Tuesday fires. {{Bushfires in Australia 1898 in Australia 1898 disasters in Oceania 1898 fires 19th-century fires in Oceania Bushfires in Victoria (state) 1890s in Victoria (state) 19th-century wildfires 1898 natural disasters February 1898 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1965 Gippsland Bushfires
For many weeks between 16 February and late March 1965, major bushfires burnt across a wide landscape of Gippsland in Victoria, Australia, from Lake Glenmaggie in the west to well beyond Bruthen and Tambo Crossing in the east. Nearly one million acres of State forest A state forest or national forest is a forest that is administered or protected by a sovereign state, sovereign or federated state, or territory (country subdivision), territory. Background State forests are forests that are Administration (gov ... and pasture were burnt. The Forests Commission Victoria (FCV) and Country Fire Authority (CFA) faced their gravest bushfire threat since Black Friday in 1939. There were many other bushfires across the state that summer, but the ones in Gippsland reached disastrous proportions, culminating in the declaration of a State of Emergency on 5 March when the Army and Air Force were called in to assist. References {{Reflist Bushfires in Victoria (state) Gippsland (r ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ash Wednesday Fires
The Ash Wednesday bushfires, known in South Australia as Ash Wednesday II, were a series of bushfires that occurred in south-eastern Australia in 1983 on 16 February. Within twelve hours, more than 180 fires fanned by hot winds of up to caused widespread destruction across the states of Victoria and South Australia. Years of severe drought and extreme weather combined to create one of Australia's worst fire days in a century. The fires were the deadliest in Australian history until the Black Saturday bushfires in 2009. 75 people died as a result of the fires; 47 in Victoria, and 28 in South Australia. This included 14 Country Fire Authority and three Country Fire Service personnel, all 17 were volunteer firefighters. Many fatalities were as a result of firestorm conditions caused by a sudden and violent wind change in the evening which rapidly changed the direction and size of the fire front. The speed and ferocity of the flames, aided by abundant fuels and a landscape i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Eastern Victoria Great Divide Bushfires
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