Australia Fires 2019 Facts
This figure comes from Professor Chris Dickman who is an expert on Australian biodiversity at the University of Sydney.
Australia fires 2019 facts. 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. In Victoria where the bushfire season usually starts later 100kmh winds fanned more than 60 blazes during an unprecedented. Australias deadly bushfires sparked in September 2019 and have been blazing ever since.
The Environment Energy and Science Group has assessed the effects of the bushfires on a range of biodiversity and landscape values. According to The New York Times that area is six times the size of the 2019 Amazon fires. In Queensland 20 homes have been lost and about 180000ha burned.
Climate change is influencing this drying trendThe 2019-20 bushfire season in New South Wales and southeast Queensland had an early and devastating start in August 2019. The fire season arrived early in the 2019. A prolonged drought that began in 2017 made this years bushfire season more devastating than ever.
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. 11 Facts About Australias Wildfires.
Some key facts about the size intensity and devastating impact of the fires. In November Australian meteorologists identified the first day ever that mainland Australia experienced no rain whatsoever. Around 25 million people and between 600000 and 700000 species call Australia home with 84 of its.
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 Australian 20192020 bushfire season was one of the worst in recent times in the world. Australias 2019 bushfires have ripped through the country.