Australia Fires 2019 Map
The scale of the area burned by the fires is immense with at least 49m hectares burned or currently burning in NSW alone based on the most recent figures available.
Australia fires 2019 map. The 201920 Australian bushfire season colloquially known as the Black Summer was a period of unusually intense bushfires in many parts of Australia. Map of multiple. Fire data is available for download or can be viewed through a map.
The designations used on this map do not imply official endorsement or acceptance by IDMC. We have updated this map to. The 201920 bushfire season saw unprecedented fires sweep across Australia with a massive impact on many communities devastating the natural environment and compromising air quality.
The Australian wildfires of 2019 2020 has burned through 12 million acres of land so far. The first day of the year saw Aussies face a humanitarian crisis as food water and fuel began to run out while bushfires continued to spread. In June 2019 the Queensland Fire and Emergency Service acting director warned of the potential for an early start to the bushfire season which normally starts in August.
During the 201920 bushfire season the southern and eastern parts of Australia experienced multiple large-scale and intense fires. A prolonged drought that began in 2017 made this years bushfire season more devastating than ever. The fires created unprecedented damage destroying more than 14 million acres of land and killing more than 20 people and an estimated 1 billion animals.
Since January 1 2020 assessments on South Coast have. Global fire map and data. NSW Fire and the Environment 201920.
This set of data tables shows the area of Australias forests in the fire extent area during this bushfire season in southern and eastern Australia by jurisdiction forest category and forest tenure. In Australias Lamington National Park and Gondwana Rainforests fires created large amounts of smoke visible in this Suomi NPP satellite image captured on Oct. Australias annual bush fire season officially begins.