Australia Fires 2020 Acres

Cattle in a field under a red sky caused by bushfires in Greendale on the.

Australia fires 2020 acres. Nearly 20 million acres. 3 graphics reveal the unimaginable scale of Australias fires. Australias landmassis nearly the size of the contiguous United States and fires this year have consumedsome 25 million acres.

Which has been hardest hit with nearly 9 million acres destroyed. BY YASMIN ANDREWS 22. 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. Fires have scorched millions of acres of land across Australia since October destroying nearly 2000 homes and killing at least 27 people including three volunteer firefighters. 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.

Photos courtesy of Yasmin Andrews 22. 7 2020 32400 square miles an area of land a little smaller than Indiana have burned since the Australia wildfires also called bushfires began. Climate change has contributed to the devastation.

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 beginning of September 2019 to February 23 2020 the Australian bushfires emitted 434 million tonnes of carbon dioxide into the atmosphere. As of Jan.

Badjah farmer Pete Bohl 81 has been driving around his property through out the disaster putting out fires to protect his paddocks. 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. Other parts of Australia have also experienced wildfires bringing the total count of burned acres to 26 million acres in 2019 but those Savannah fires.