Australia Fires 2020 Acres

Fri 24 Jan 2020 0050 EST First published on Fri 6 Dec 2019 22.

Australia fires 2020 acres. Nearly 20 million acres. Aylin Woodward Shayanne Gal Jan. Australia experiences fires during its summer which runs from December to March but this years crisis which comes on the heels of a heat wave and prolonged drought is unprecedented.

Climate change has contributed to the devastation. Just in NSW there have been more than 1300 houses destroyed and 89 million acres scorched. As of Jan.

At least 33 people have been killed - including four firefighters - and more than 11 million hectares 110000 sq km or 272 million acres of bush forest and parks across Australia has burned. States of Vermont and New Hampshire combined. The fires that plagued the Brazilian Amazon this year by comparison burned through 175 million.

In NSW the massive Gospers Mountain fire alone has burned more than 12 million acres making it the biggest forest fire in Australian history. This seasons bushfires in south-eastern Australia have killed at least 32 people and destroyed almost 2000 homes in New. Photos courtesy of Yasmin Andrews 22.

Australia faced a devastating start to itâ s fire season in late 2019 and things swiftly got worse before rains helped contain many of the worst fires in February 2020. On 8 February 2020 the ACT Emergency Services Agency ESA stated that the. The season started in early November 2019 in New South Wales and gradually progressed in Victoria.

Project leader Lily Van Eeden also from the University of Sydney said the new report looks into the effects of the fires over 1146 million hectares 2832 million acres. In total more than 73 million hectares 179 million acres have been burned across Australias six states -- an area larger than the countries of Belgium and Denmark combined. From the 45 million acres scorched during Australias 2019-2020 fire season to the record amount of carbon dioxide released from wildfires in Siberia half of which burned on carbon-rich peatland wildfires have gone from contained burns folded into the cycles of landscapes to catastrophes that wreak havoc on the lives of humans ecosystems and economies.