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The Bushfires Royal Commission gave a "conservative" estimate of the total cost of the Black Saturday bushfires of $4.4 billion. This figure included a value of $645 million placed on the 173 lives lost using an accepted method the government uses to value lives, however did not include any assessment of the cost of the injuries received. [163]
1944 Blue Mountains bushfire New South Wales: 0 approx. 40: 0 [14] [15] November 1951 – January 1952 1951–52 bushfires Victoria 4,000,000 9,900,000 11 0 0 [16] 2 January 1955 Black Sunday bushfires: South Australia: 39,000–160,000 96,000–395,000 2 40 [b] 0 [17] [18] 30 November 1957 1957 Grose Valley bushfire, Blue Mountains New South ...
The cost of dealing with the bushfires was expected to exceed the A$4.4 billion of the 2009 Black Saturday fires, [28] and tourism sector revenues fell by more than A$1 billion (US$690 million). [29] Economists estimated the bushfires may have cost A$100–230 billion (US$69–159 billion) in economic losses, [ e ] which became the costliest ...
The tail end of the heat wave also precipitated the Black Saturday bushfires, in which 173 people died, 414 injured and 2,029 houses destroyed at various locations across the state. [5] Several locations around the state recorded their highest temperatures since records began in 1859 and winds gusted up to 110 km/h. [33]
McArthur used the conditions of the Black Friday fires of 1939 as his example of a 100 index. The FFDI on Black Saturday, 7 February 2009, reached much higher than the maximum value of 100. At such extremes it is meaningless to specify a particular value of FFDI. After the Black Saturday bushfires, the McArthur Forest Fire Danger Index was revised.
2003 - January - March "2003 Eastern Victorian alpine bushfires" (1.3 million hectares) 2006-07 - 1 December - 6 February "Eastern Victoria Great Divide bushfires" (1.2 -1.3 million hectares) 1944 - January - February (1 million hectares) 1983 - 16 February "Ash Wednesday" (510,000 hectares) 2009 - 7 February "Black Saturday" (450,000 hectares)
Extreme bushfire conditions—Melbourne's maximum temperature was above 43.0 °C (109.4 °F) for three consecutive days for the first time since records had been kept, accompanied by strong winds on 7 February 2009, later to be known as 'Black Saturday'—precipitated major bushfires throughout Victoria, involving several large fire complexes ...
Black Christmas bushfires 2001–2002 (New South Wales) with 750,000 hectares burnt. Canberra bushfires of 2003; Black Saturday bushfires of 2009 (Victoria) with 400,000 hectares burnt and the highest death toll of over 170 deaths. 2019–20 Australian bushfire season – "Black summer" – the worst bushfire season in modern Australian history ...