where is the worst fires in australia?
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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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A man in Lake Conjola, Australia, tried to defend a property on Tuesday as fire consumed the house next door. 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.
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In the State of South Australia, 10 people have been arrested since September for deliberate or reckless fire behavior. The main cause of fire ignitions of Australia's bushfires is dry lightning, essentially lightning from thunderstorms that don't produce rain.
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Australia has always experienced bushfires - it has a "fire season". But this year they are a lot worse than normal. Fires are usually caused by lightning strikes or accidentally by a spark - but some fires are also started deliberately.
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Nearly three billion animals were killed or displaced by Australia's devastating wildfires in 2019 and 2020, according to a new report, with experts calling it "one of the worst wildlife disasters in modern history".
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At any time of the year, some parts of Australia are prone to bushfires. ... Bushfires tend to occur when light and heavy fuel loads in Eucalypt forests have dried out, usually following periods of low rainfall. The potential for extreme fire weather varies greatly throughout Australia, both in frequency and severity.
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Only a week ago, more than 60 fires were burning across NSW and 33 of those were uncontained. The five fires that are still burning out of control are all in the Bega Valley and Snowy Valley area in the state's south. They include the Border fire and the Big Jack Mountain fire.
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February has brought much-needed rain to the state, where fires have burned about 13.3 million acres of land. Fire officials in Australia are celebrating a landmark moment, saying that for the first time in what has been a horrendous wildfire season, every fire in hard-hit New South Wales is now under control.
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Heavy rains in New South Wales in recent days have led to hopes that all the bushfires in the Australian state could be out by the end of the week. Since Friday, parts of the fire-ravaged Australian state have experienced their heaviest rainfall in years. ... In total, 24 fires remain burning across the state.
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New South Wales's Rural Fire Service map showed a large cluster of wildfires Thursday from south of Brisbane to south of Canberra, Australia's capital. ... More than 200 fires are burning across Victoria and New South Wales, the country's most populated areas.
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Every Wildfire In New South Wales, Australia, Is Now Under Control : NPR. Every Wildfire In New South Wales, Australia, Is Now Under Control The fires that burned for months over much of eastern Australia have finally been brought under control, helped by days of intense rain. But recovery remains a long-term effort.
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Other major conflagrations include the 1851 Black Thursday bushfires, the 2006 December bushfires, the 1974-75 fires that affected 15% of Australia, and the ongoing 2019–20 bushfires. In January 2020, it was estimated that over 1.25 billion animals have died in the 2019-2020 Australian bushfire season.
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Australia's deadly bushfires sparked in September 2019 and have been blazing ever since. A prolonged drought that began in 2017 made this year's bushfire season more devastating than ever.
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Other major conflagrations include the 1851 Black Thursday bushfires, the 2006 December bushfires, the 1974–75 fires that affected 15% of Australia, and the ongoing 2019–20 bushfires. In January 2020, it was estimated that over 1.25 billion animals have died in the 2019–2020 Australian bushfire season.
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The plane crash and the discovery Friday evening of a body in a burnt-out house in Moruya, on the NSW South Coast, took the death toll for Australia's bushfire season to 33, including eight firefighters. NSW, with 25 fatalaties, has been the worst-affected state.
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Severe fire storms are often named according to the day on which they peaked, including the five most deadly blazes: Black Saturday 2009 in Victoria (173 people killed, 2000 homes lost); Ash Wednesday 1983 in Victoria and South Australia (75 dead, nearly 1900 homes); Black Friday 1939 in Victoria (71 dead, 650 houses ...