When is bushfire season in victoria

Notices are also published in local newspapers. During seasonal prohibited periods, fire restrictions under the Forests Act and Forests Fire Protection Regulations are in force over private and other land within 1. The above dates generally coincide with those of the CFA's Fire Danger Period , but may vary depending on bushfire risk in a given fire season.

Average minimum temperatures for the same period were very likely to be above the long-term average across most of Australia, except for the southern parts of Western Australia. This comes after recent rainfall resulted in average to above-average soil moisture and stream flows across many areas. There were a few notable exceptions, with central coastal Queensland and an area of south-east South Australia extending into western Victoria and south-west New South Wales all experiencing below-average rainfall for the year.

Queensland's fire season has already begun in some areas, according to Rural Fire Service in Queensland's chief superintendent, Tony Johnstone. We've had fires in the north Burnett and the Burnett area [and] around the Brisbane Valley, because they've had excessively dry periods," Superintendent Johnstone said. Emergency Management Victoria Commissioner Andrew Crisp said the north and the west of his state also faced a grassfiire threat after median-to-above-median rainfall this winter.

And grassfires can be as deadly as forest fires," Commissioner Crisp said. It will be hot over summer. It will be dry and, in a lot of parts of the state, there will be fires. NSW Rural Fire Service's deputy commissioner, Peter McKechnie, said it was not only grass that posed a fire risk inland, crops could also burn, too, said. And we also then have hot machinery operating [among] those crops and lots of dust," Deputy Commissioner McKechnie said.

And, obviously, where fire does occur, it can be absolutely devastating to farmers and farming communities. Queensland and New South Wales reported a challenging hazard-reduction season, with a wet autumn delaying controlled burns. ABC Radio Finder. Medi-hotel escapee who used fire escape allegedly entered SA with stolen driver's licence.

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The Great Divide North and South fires burned 1,, hectares, majority on public land. Other significant fires burning at the same time were the Tawonga Gap fire 33, hectares and the Tatong-Watchbox Creek Track fire 31, hectares. There was one death, 51 houses destroyed and 1, stock lost. More than fires broke out across the state between New Year's Eve and the end of January There were four fatalities in these fires.

Fifty-seven houses were destroyed, and farm buildings lost. Stock losses totalled more than 64, The fires burned about , hectares. About 60 percent of the area was public land and 40 percent private property. Eighty-seven fires commenced by lightning in the northeast of Victoria on 8 January. Eight fires were unable to be contained and joined to form the largest fire in Victoria since the Black Friday bushfires.

The fires burned for 59 days before contained. The Alpine fires burned more than 1. Fanned by dry fuel and poor weather, these fires joined in burning , hectares.

The fire was declared safe on 31 December after 25 millimetres of rain fell in the area. The suspected cause was a campfire.

Fires in the Dandenong Ranges took three lives, destroyed 41 houses, and burned hectares. Due to lightning on 14 January, fires started on this day and took two weeks to bring under control. A significant fire in Central Victoria burned 50, hectares, including 17, hectares of crown land.

Three people died, and more than houses, farms, and 46, stock destroyed. Areas affected including Avoca, Maryborough and Little River. Fires also affected the alpine region at Mt Buffalo, burning 51, hectares. On 16 February, over fires burned , hectares and 47 people died.