Several fires noted along the western coast of WA yesterday afternoon as extreme heat was observed across the area. The image is from the afternoon of 27 Feb 2010, captured by the MODIS instru...
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Several large bushfires are burning in southern WA. The region of fire activity is shown in the Aqua MODIS image from the afternoon of 18 February 2010 The large area of activity is approximat...
http://australiabushfiremonitor.blogspot.com/2010/02/southern-wa.html
Widespread fire activity across TAS this evening, although no real threat to 'property' is present at this time. Two fires which have burnt in excess of 3000 ha (each) remain uncontolled accordin...
http://australiabushfiremonitor.blogspot.com/2010/02/central-tas.html
The York Town fire in northern TAS has continued since first noted earlier in the week . Since that time, it has nearly doubled in size to about 2500 ha burnt. The fire is currently contained, a...
http://australiabushfiremonitor.blogspot.com/2010/01/northern-tas-2.html
Bushfires continued to threaten homes and 'property' in southwest WA today. A large fire in Moore River National Park which began yesterday afternoon threaten the communities of Lancelin, Oce...
http://australiabushfiremonitor.blogspot.com/2010/01/southwest-wa-3.html
A small but dangerous fire near the town of Brigadoon (on the outskirts of Perth) on 3 Jan has come perilously close to destroying homes. Four firefighters were injured while battling the blaze...
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A serious fire is burning in northern TAS tonight in a state forest near Asbestos Road in the vicinity of York Town. The fire remains out of control at this time. No houses are under threat at t...
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Still mostly in holiday mode here, but a few of items of note... 1. At least 37 homes have been destroyed in a bushfire, apparently ignited by a fallen power pole .in Toodyay, WA, approximatel...
http://australiabushfiremonitor.blogspot.com/2009/12/toodyay-wa-plus.html
As briefly noted earlier , nine houses were destroyed in 3 separate fires in southern NSW on 17 December, on a highly dangerous fire weather day. However, a cool change has brought relief to muc...
http://australiabushfiremonitor.blogspot.com/2009/12/southern-nsw.html
Parts of southeastern Australia saw a a second consecutive day of dangerous fire weather conditions, with several destructive bushfires reported in the region . Most destructive was a fire in Ge...
http://australiabushfiremonitor.blogspot.com/2009/12/southeast-australia.html
That would be TC Laurence, currently menacing the Kimberley region of WA . It is currently a Category 3 storm, with a central pressure of 975 mb. This same system brought a month's worth of rain...
http://australiabushfiremonitor.blogspot.com/2009/12/little-storm-that-could.html
An out-of-control fire was reported earlier today in Southwest WA , near the town of Harvey. While the fire is not directly threatening 'property' or lives. It nonetheless is having an impact ...
http://australiabushfiremonitor.blogspot.com/2009/12/southwest-wa.html
Numerous fires remain burning across NSW , particularly in the northern reaches of the state. No immediate threat to human values is present at this time, but the RFS current incidents page sug...
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Another active fire day throughout the eastern portion of Australia again today, as fires raged from the Cape York Peninsula in far north QLD down into northern and central portions of NSW . ...
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A few fires burning in northern NSW and southern QLD today. The most serious is reported near Tweed Heads , at the QLD-NSW border. At this time, none of these fires are posing a particular threa...
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With the beginning of December also comes summer which is peak bushfire season in southern Australia. If it is anything like the spring in terms of weather it will be a bumpy ride. In partic...
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The bushfire situation across Australia is currently in a relative state of calm, with fire weather conditions having moderated considerably over the past few days. That said, there is a fire ba...
http://australiabushfiremonitor.blogspot.com/2009/11/miscellany.html
The dangerous fire weather conditions observed at the end of last week persisted throughout the weekend in NSW. Dangerous conditions peaked on Sunday, as a developing low pressure system over V...
http://australiabushfiremonitor.blogspot.com/2009/11/as-bad-as-it-gets-too.html
In terms of fire weather, most of the southeastern portion of Australia has seen conditions that are about as bad as they get over the past few days. The whole month of November has seen unprece...
http://australiabushfiremonitor.blogspot.com/2009/11/almost-as-bas-as-it-gets.html
As suggested yesterday , there are huge fires currently going in the central portions of the NT, including the Barkly Tablelands. Many of these fires have been burning for several weeks, and hav...
http://australiabushfiremonitor.blogspot.com/2009/11/central-nt.html
Lots of fire activity reported across Australia today, as generally high temperatures continued to be4 observed across much of the country. This warmth was particularly pronounced in the interio...
http://australiabushfiremonitor.blogspot.com/2009/11/eastern-australia-and-more.html
ABC reports today of a wildfire near Camooweal , near the QLD/NT border, which was brought under control earlier today. It's somewhat rare that these fires in the north directly impact human act...
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Noting the first significant fire activity in VIC this evening as the season winds up. The fire is burning in Cape Conran Coastal Park between Cape Conran and Bemm River. It has burnt around 11...
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The image shows some several large bushfires burning in the Barklys Tableland, in central NT. The fires here, while burning for a week or so have flared, expanding a great deal in a short amoun...
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Here are a few pictures of the recent Rockhampton bushfires that from a mailing list. The photographer is unknown.
http://australiabushfiremonitor.blogspot.com/2009/10/rockhampton-pix.html