The Australian bushfire season ran from late December 2008 to April/May 2009. Above average rainfalls in December, particularly in Victoria, delayed the start of the season, but by January 2009, condi
Smoke from a bushfire in the Yarra Flats, between Heidelberg and Bulleen, that burnt 5 hectares on 12 February
A satellite image of smoke and pyrocumulus cloud over eastern Victoria on 7 February.
Smoke from the southern Dandenongs and Daylesford fires over Melbourne on 23 February
The southern Dandenong Ranges bushfires, 23 February 2009.
The summer of 2013–14 was at the time, the most destructive bushfire season in terms of property loss since the 2008–09 Australian bushfire season, with the loss of 371 houses and several hundred non-
Fires and smoke plumes around the Sydney region of New South Wales, 19 October 2013
Homes in Campvale, near Port Stephens, following the Hank St. bushfire
The State Mine, Mt. York Road and Linksview Road fires viewed from the NASA Aqua Satellite on 17 October 2013
Fires to the north of Lithgow, New South Wales October 2013