Australia Fires 2020 Date

The 2019-2020 summer bushfire season started early and started strong.

Australia fires 2020 date. Mapping and spatial analysis is based on best available information Figure 1. 11 Jan 2020. Understanding the more immediate and short-term physical and mental health impacts of bushfires can help to ensure health services are sufficiently equipped to deal with them in any future bushfire event.

As improved information becomes available over time. As the people evacuated by sea from Mallacoota were finally reunited with their loved ones in Somerville emotions were raw and the feelings of relief were palpable. A firefighter sprays foam retardant ahead of a fire front in the New South Wales town of Jerrawangala on January 1 2020.

European Space Agency astronaut Luca Parmitano captured this image of the Australian fires on Jan. Summary are detailed in a technical report NSW Fire and the Environment 201920 Technical Report DPIE 2020. On 20 January 2020 the Australian Governments Department of Agriculture Water and the Environment released an initial list of threatened and migratory species that have more than 10 of their known or predicted distribution in areas affected by bushfires in southern and eastern Australia from 1 August 2019 and 13 January 2020.

The season started in early November 2019 in New South Wales. Western Australias bushfire season is June to October in the north and October to April in the south. The death toll rises to 23.

As more than 100 fires burnt across NSW Patrick Salway 29 and his 63-year-old father Robert from Cobargo inland from Bermagui lost their lives defending their home. Thousands of holidaymakers and locals were forced to flee to beaches in fire-ravaged southeast Australia on December 31 as blazes ripped. Almost 90 homes were burnt.

Heres a snapshot of some of the major events so far. Fire extent area during 201920 summer bushfire season in southern and eastern Australia as at 28 April 2020 and the area of forest in this extent by jurisdiction Jurisdiction Fire. But the danger is equally great further south in Victoria.