Australia Fires Today 2020

Recent Australian fires likely destroyed many hollows which could negatively affect those animals scientists say.

Australia fires today 2020. Bushfire koalas going back to the wild Bushfire koalas going back to the wild Thousands of creatures were killed and injured in last summers blazes on South Australias Kangaroo. The blazes now encompass an area equivalent to the size of Denmark and Belgium combined and have destroyed nearly 2000 homes leading to massive. Since September 2019 Victoria New South Wales Queensland and Western Australia have been ravaged by bushfires that have so far taken the lives of 27 people and an estimated billion animals.

At least 25 people have been killed and more than 63000 square miles burned since the fires began in September 2019. Fire hotspots from Oct. A satellite image of Batemans Bay from December 31 2019 shows smoke and fire.

Physics Today 73 3 26 2020. Satellite photo of smoke from fires in New South Wales and Victoria December 3 2020. Smoke from the fires has blanketed major cities in haze in recent weeks.

If you missed it earlier today we updated our ongoing interactive map showing the scale of the bushfires. Were now at 84m hectares burnt across NSW Queensland Victoria Tasmania SA and WA. The fires have burned over 12 million acres an area larger than Maryland.

The fire has burned 155000 hectaresabout one third of the islands entire area devastating the national park and farmland. Precipitation detected by radar over Victoria and New South Wales at 435 pm. PST January 15 2020.

Even before the challenges of COVID-19 Australia was hit hard by bushfires during summer 2019-20 - the most catastrophic bushfire season ever experienced in the countrys history. The red areas represent heat. Heres the view from space by NASA satellites.