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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]
The list contains individual bushfires and bushfire seasons that have resulted in fatalities, or bushfires that have burned in excess of 5,000 hectares (12,000 acres), or was significant for its damage to particular Australian landmarks. As of 2010, Australian bushfires accounted for over 800 deaths since 1851 and, in 2012, the total ...
Black Saturday bushfires at Steels Creek in 2009. ... 2009 - 7 February "Black Saturday" (450,000 hectares) 1965 - Gippsland (300,000 hectares)
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 ...
The Black Saturday bushfires were a series of fires that ignited across the Australian state of Victoria during extreme weather conditions on 7 February 2009. Burning around 450,000 ha for over a month, the fires destroyed over 2,100 homes, destroyed several regional towns and were fought by over 5,000 firefighting personnel.
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 ...
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]
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 ...