Unprecedented burn area of Australian mega forest fires

Matthias M. Boer; Victor Resco de Dios; Ross A. Bradstock

doi:10.1038/s41558-020-0716-1

Unprecedented burn area of Australian mega forest fires

Matthias M. Boer
, Victor Resco de Dios
, Ross A. Bradstock

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Abstract

Between September 2019 and early January 2020, around 5.8 million hectares of mainly temperate broadleaf forest were burned in New South Wales (NSW) and Victoria (VIC) in eastern Australia by a series of mega fires. Many of the fires have exceeded 100,000 ha and continued to burn for weeks after their ignition1. The Gospers Mountain fire near Sydney has burned more than 510,000 ha since ignition by lightning on 26 October 2019; it is the largest forest fire recorded in Australia and continues to burn in late January 2020.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	171-172
Number of pages	2
Journal	Nature Climate Change
Volume	10
Issue number	3
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1038/s41558-020-0716-1
Publication status	Published - 1 Mar 2020

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