Australia Fires Map Vs Us

On 7 January the red and orange fire symbols in the MyFireWatch map of New South Wales NSW are all ranked as advice alerts by the NSW rural fire service.

Australia fires map vs us. The size of Australia shocks America in bushfire map comparisons. American network NBC has been ridiculed on the web this week for graphically misrepresenting the bushfires in Australia but it turns out they werent as wrong as it seemed. Australia is approximately 7741220 sq km while United States is approximately 9833517 sq km making United States 27 larger than Australia.

Media caption Australia fires. We have updated this map to. Scale of Australias fires compared to map of United States of America.

Is on top of the more than 74 fire personnel from DOI and USFS that. Americans are confessing they had no idea how big Australia is as the size of. The comparison shows the sizes of.

The graph titled Black Summer Fires compares the Mendocino Complex Fire Amazon Fires Siberian Fires and current Australian fires. The damage zone dwarfs Singapore in a comparison. For low-cost sensor data a correction equation is also applied to mitigate bias in the sensor data.

The comparison puts the hellish fires scorching Australia into perspective. Two maps showing Australias deadly wildfires demonstrate just how widespread the inferno is compared to the size of the United States. The size of the wildfires would cover a large portion of the United States.

Queensland Victoria Western Australia and Southern Australia have also battled wildfires. A map overlaying the United States with Australia amid the bushfire crisis has left Americans scratching their heads about the size of the island continent. See current wildfires and wildfire perimeters on the Fire Weather Avalanche Center Wildfire Map.