Australia Fires 2019 Facts

As of January 2020 more than 500 million animals were killed 16 million acres burned and 25 people were killed.

Australia fires 2019 facts. Exploring the short-term health impacts 1 1 Introduction 11 Australias 201920 bushfire season at a glance Australias land area is almost 77 million square kilometres or 770 million hectares. 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. From September there have been serious fire events first in south-eastern Queensland and northern New South Wales.

The blaze has affected a large population of the potoroo a hare-size wallaby. This figure comes from Professor Chris Dickman who is an expert on Australian biodiversity at the University of Sydney. Australias deadly bushfires sparked in September 2019 and have been blazing ever since.

Here are five things you need to know about them from CO2 levels to the destruction of nature. The Australian 20192020 bushfire season was one of the worst in recent times in the world. 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.

The fire season arrived early in the 2019. A combination of record-breaking heat record-breaking drought lightning strikes high wind conditions and arson ignited unprecedented raging fires across New South Wales NSW and southeast Australia. The Environment Energy and Science Group has assessed the effects of the bushfires on a range of biodiversity and landscape values.

The 2019 Australia Bushfires began in September 2019 and continued into 2020. In 2019 many of the affected areas had their driest January to August period on record. Australia experienced the worst bushfire season ever in 2019-2020 with fires blazing for months in large parts of the country.

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 devastating fires which spread in the Australian states of Queensland and New South Wales NSW and other areas of the south-eastern coast. 2019 - 2020 fires in eastern and southern Australia - random thoughts on a continuing nightmare.