Bushfires in Our History,

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1 Bushfires in Our History, Date Nickname Location Deaths Losses Dec 98 Jan 99 January 99 4 March January Thursday Red Tuesday Sunday Friday Portland, Plenty Ranges, Westernport, Wimmera, Dandenong South Warburton Snowy Mts, Dubbo, Lugarno, Canberra Throughout the state Noojee, Woods Point, Omeo, Warrandyte, Yarra Glen, Warburton, Dromona, Mansfield, Otway & Grampian Ranges Hamilton, South Wangaratta Central & Western Districts, esp Hamilton, Dunkeld, Skipton, Lake Bolac ACT Molongolo Valley, Mt Stromlo, Red Hill, Woden Valley, Tuggeranong, Mugga million sheep 5,000,000 >000 buildings 60,000 Many houses 7, buildings Town of Narbethong destroyed buildings farms 00 sheep 700 homes Huge stock losses houses 40 farm buildings Observatory buildings,50,000 Thousands of acres of grass country >,000,000 0,000 These fires raged across throughout Feb and into March, killing 6 people & causing much damage to farms, homes and forests Many pine plantations lost; fire began in NSW and became a 7 km fire front in Canberra Fires widespread from 98 January 99; many forests and 69 timber mills destroyed Fire burnt on a 96 km front at Yarram, Sth Plant works, coal mine & buildings destroyed at Morwell, Yallourn n Curriculum and Assessment Authority, State Government of, 0, except where indicated otherwise.

2 Nov 95 Jan January 96 7 January 965 Feb March Sept 968 Jan January January January 978 Tuesday Hill North west NSW, Wagga Wagga, Pilliga Benalla The Basin, Christmas Hills, Kinglake, St Andrews, Hurstbridge, Warrandyte, Mitcham Longwood Tasmania South east Tasmania, Hobart Dandenong Ranges, The Basin, Upwey South Coast, Blue Mts, Illawarra Lara, Daylesford, Bulgana, Yea, Darraweit, Kangaroo Flat, Korongvale Mount Buffalo Western Districts: Penshurst, Tatyoon, Streatham,Creswick, Pura Pura, Werneth, Cressy, Rokewood, Beeac, Mingay, Lismore, Little River Western Australia South west W.A. Bairnsdale >4,000,000 Several 00,000 8 >454 homes 7 6 houses 6 4 >60 houses & shops 4,000 stock 9 houses 8 other major buildings 85,000 stock 5,400 km fencing 64 houses >0 other buildings >50 houses >80 other buildings 0 homes schools/churches/halls >,000 stock 08 houses 40 other buildings 6,000 stock 750,000 of forest 40,000 of grassland 64,70,90 >,000, ,000,0 0,000,500 house 6 buildings 6,500 stock Fires in the Dandenong Ranges and on the outskirts of Melbourne Major grass fire Burnt forest and grassland cost $45 million; 0 fires burnt within a 50 km radius of Hobart 80 fires broke out on the same day; 7trapped motorists died on Geelong Melbourne freeway at Lara Forest fire that burnt for days n Curriculum and Assessment Authority, State Government of, 0, except where indicated otherwise.

3 8 Dec Jan January Dec Jan 99 January July 00 Feb 00 7 October 00 8 Jan 9 March 00 8 January 00 Ash Wednesday Ash Wednesday Linton Granite Belt Bushfires Alpine Fires Sunset Country, Big Desert Mt Macedon Monivae, Branxholme, East Trentham, Mt Macedon, the Otway Ranges, Warburton, Belgrave Heights, Cockatoo, Beaconsfield Upper and Framlingham South Australia Adelaide Hills, Mt Gambier, South Barwon Maryborough, Avoca, Little River, Wilsons Promontory, Mt Buffalo Strathbogie Ranges Dandenong Ranges, Arthur s Seat,, Creswick Linton Dadswell Bridge Greater Sydney, Hunter Valley, North Coast, Northern, Central & Southern Tablelands Illawarra, South Coast Queensland Ballandean, Glen Aplin North eastern, ACT Namadji, Uruarra, , Houses 6,00 >80 houses >80 other buildings 7,000 stock 8 houses >00 other buildings 0,000 km fencing >00,000 stock 8 houses 400 farms 46,000 stock 7 houses 66 other buildings,500 stock 4 houses other buildings CFA fire truck 0,000 >00,000 4,50 5 CFA fre truck 780 (as a result of a road vehicle accident, not as a result of the fire) 4 house 8,000 livestock (mainly sheep) 5,000 klms of fencing 86 houses,400 stock 0 Houses other buildings 4 houses bridges other structures 0,000 stock,000 km fencing 488 houses >00 other buildings,5000 of crop and pasture,464,000 40,000,00,000 >57,000 Fire started by lightning strike Over 00 fires burnt in ; estimated $90 million $00 million fires started on public land on January 5 CFA fire fighters killed 495 fires, 5 days of severe fire activity 80 fires started by lightning; 8 of these combined to form largest bushfire in Vic since 99 n Curriculum and Assessment Authority, State Government of, 0, except where indicated otherwise.

4 0 January 005 Dec 005 Jan 006 Dec Feb January January Eyre Peninsula Great Divide Complex Saturday Pierces Creek, Stromlo, Cotter, Corin, Tidbinbilla, Duffy, Holder, Chapman, Kamah, Curtin, Lyons, Coppins Crossing, Murrumbidgee Valley South Australia Wangary, Wanilla, North Shields, Poonindie, Louth Bay, Greenpathc, Yallunda Flat Stawell, Yea, Moondarra, Grampians, Kinglake, Anakie, Ararat, Baw Baw, Glenelg, Golden Plains, Geelong, Horsham, Latrobe, Northern & Southern Grampians, South, Moorabool, Murrindindi Northeast, Delburn Branxholme Bunyip State Park Numerous towns and localities in the vicinity of Kinglake, Toolangi, Healesville, Buxton, Marysville, Strathewen, St Andrews, Flowerdale, Beechworth, Bendigo, Central, Horsham, Coleraine, Churchill, Kilmore, Murrindindi, Upper Ferntree Gully, Maiden Gully, Lynbrook and Narre Warren. 8 7 Mr Stomlo Observatory 4,000 stock 50 houses 47,000 stock 4 houses 9 houses damaged 59 other buildings 65,598 stock,97 klms of fencing houses houses damaged 55 other buildings,74 stock,57 klms of fencing 890,000 60,000 >,54,88 44 houses 6,54 40 houses 6,00 >,056 houses >,600 other buildings >,800 stock >0,00 km fencing 450,000 $50 million The worst bushfires in s history and the 8 th deadliest recorded bushfire in the world. The air temperature reached 46.7 in Melbourne highest recorded temp in an Australian capital city. Estimate of n Curriculum and Assessment Authority, State Government of, 0, except where indicated otherwise.

5 cost of fires by Bushfires Royal Commission $4.4 billion. Localities listed are indicative only. Compiled from Department of Sustainability and Environment's [Link: Bushfire history Major bushfires in and other emergencies/major bushfires in victoria], Appendix of the[link: 009 n Bushfires Royal Commission's report Reports], and the Council of Australian Governments Inquiry on Bushfire Mitigation and Management, Appendix D n Curriculum and Assessment Authority, State Government of, 0, except where indicated otherwise.