Australia Fires 2019 Facts
11 Facts About Australias Wildfires.
Australia fires 2019 facts. 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. In Victoria where the bushfire season usually starts later 100kmh winds fanned more than 60 blazes during an unprecedented. 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.
A prolonged drought that began in 2017 made this years bushfire season more devastating than ever. Australia experienced the worst bushfire season ever in 2019-2020 with fires blazing for months in large parts of the country. 201920 fires New South Wales has experienced extensive bushfires throughout spring and summer 201920.
Around 126000 square kilometres of. In Queensland 20 homes have been lost and about 180000ha burned. At least 1700 homes have been destroyed across the country in the fires.
Over seven million hectares of land have burned in the fires. This figure comes from Professor Chris Dickman who is an expert on Australian biodiversity at the University of Sydney. According to The New York Times that area is six times the size of the 2019 Amazon fires.
As of January 2020 more than 500 million animals were killed 16 million acres burned and 25 people were killed. South-eastern Australia which is experiencing the worst of the fires is in the grip of the worst drought on record. From September there have been serious fire events first in south-eastern Queensland and northern New South Wales.
The season started in early November 2019 in New South Wales and gradually progressed in Victoria. The 2019 Australia Bushfires began in September 2019 and continued into 2020. 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.