Australia Fires 2019 Facts

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Australia fires 2019 facts. At least 1700 homes have been destroyed across the country in the fires. The 2019-2020 burnt an almost continuous 1160 km from south east Queensland to eastern Victoria encompassing 704 million hectares of land of which 57 million hectares of forest and woodland was burnt devastating Australian communities and killing and injuring an estimated three billion animals. Since the mid-1990s southeast Australia has experienced a 15 decline in late autumn and early winter rainfall and a 25 decline in average rainfall in April and May.

11 Facts About Australias Wildfires. 2019 - 2020 fires in eastern and southern Australia - random thoughts on a continuing nightmare. South-eastern Australia which is experiencing the worst of the fires is in the grip of the worst drought on record.

The devastating fires which spread in the Australian states of Queensland and New South Wales NSW and other areas of the south-eastern coast. Thousands of holidaymakers and locals were forced to flee to beaches in fire-ravaged southeast Australia on December 31 as blazes ripped through popular tourist areas leaving no escape by land. The Bureau of Meteorology noted in its Annual Climate Statement 2019 published on 9 January 2020 that The extensive and long-lived fires appear to be the largest in scale in the modern record in New South Wales while the total area burnt appears to be the largest in a single recorded fire season for eastern Australia.

The fire season arrived early in the 2019. The Australian 20192020 bushfire season was one of the worst in recent times in the world. A prolonged drought that began in 2017 made this years bushfire season more devastating than ever.

In Victoria where the bushfire season usually starts later 100kmh winds fanned more than 60 blazes during an unprecedented. The size of the area burned by Australias wildfires is the equivalent of more than 21309 Central Parks put together. 700 houses have been destroyed by the fires 2306 insurance claims have been made up to mid-December valued at 240 million dollars and 12-50 million dollars is the estimated cost of disruptions due to smoke in Sydney alone.

The season started in early November 2019 in New South Wales and gradually progressed in Victoria. The blaze has affected a large population of the potoroo a hare-size wallaby. This Summary provides an outline of the biodiversity and.