how many hectares burned in australia?
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More than 12.6 million hectares burned According to the Department of Home Affairs, to date more than 12.6 million hectares across Australia have been burned. To put that in some perspective, in New South Wales alone more than 5.4 million hectares have been burned, said Ben Shepherd from the NSW Rural Fire Service.
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The fire across almost 300,000 hectares (1,150 sq miles) is an hour's drive from the nation's most-populous city. People who cannot defend their property from approaching fires have been told they should leave immediately.
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Favourable weather conditions have slowed the spread of fire in East Gippsland, but many are still burning out of control. The Vic Emergency website said fires in the area had "joined into one large fire" burning through more than 1 million hectares.
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The Black Saturday bushfires killed 173 people, 120 in the Kinglake area alone. Another 414 people were injured. More than 450,000 hectares had burned and 3500 buildings including more than 2000 houses destroyed. The RSPCA estimated that up to one million wild and domesticated animals died in the disaster.
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A "mega blaze" raging across a 60km (37 mile) front north-west of Sydney cannot currently be put out, Australian fire officials have warned. The fire across almost 300,000 hectares (1,150 sq miles) is an hour's drive from the nation's most-populous city.
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From September 2019 until March 2020, when the final fire was extinguished, Australia had one of the worst bush fires in history. ... This caused mass damage all around the country with fires in each state and territory. The east coast had widespread destruction from the mega-blaze.
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Months of devastating fires in Australia left at least 28 people dead, about 3,000 homes destroyed and up to a billion animals affected. ... "For the first time since early July 2019, there is currently no active bush or grass fires in #NSW," tweeted New South Wales Rural Fire Service.
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The number of fires still afflicting NSW ranged from 100 to 300 in Australian media reports. Crews have been battling a front spanning 1,000km (620 miles) along the north coast of NSW, with several blazes "exceeding 100,000 hectares alone", officials have said.
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Then, they match those sites up with the location of fires burning today. Most of the fires burning today match up with spots where trees were felled earlier in the year, says Alencar. Through July 2019 over 7,200 square miles of the Brazilian rainforest has burned—an aggregated area nearly the size of New Jersey.
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Wildfires are a natural part of the ecosystem in Australia. ... “There has been a long-term increase in extreme fire weather, and in the length of the fire season, across large parts of Australia,” according to the climate report. These fires may not be 100 percent attributable to climate change.
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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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Across the state, 923,000 hectares have been blackened and 39 fires are continuing to burn. Four emergency warning and two evacuation warnings remained in place this morning. ... State Control Centre spokesman Peter O'Keefe said Victorian fires had destroyed 110 properties and impacted more than 220 outbuildings.
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There are currently 11 uncontrolled blazes burning across the state, including a blaze in the Barossa region, which is moving in a northerly direction and is threatening the town of Truro. Meanwhile, the fire in Victoria's Grampians, where one woman died yesterday, has now burnt around 52,000 hectares.
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Through July 2019 over 7,200 square miles of the Brazilian rainforest has burned—an aggregated area nearly the size of New Jersey. Through July 2019 over 7,200 square miles of the Brazilian rainforest has burned—an aggregated area nearly the size of New Jersey.
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Research published in a special edition of Nature Climate Change focused on the bushfire crisis finds that 21% of the total area covered by Australian forests – excluding Tasmania - has burnt so far in the 2019-20 bushfire season.
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The Eucalypt forest type is found in all states and territories and across all but the continent's driest regions (Map 1). A total of 35 million hectares (38 per cent) of the Eucalypt forest type is in Queensland and 16 million hectares (18 per cent) are in New South Wales.
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Crews have been battling a front spanning 1,000km (620 miles) along the north coast of NSW, with several blazes "exceeding 100,000 hectares alone", officials have said. Flame retardant had to be dropped in Sydney's northern suburbs as some bushfires approached within 15km (nine miles) of the city centre.