More dangerous and longer bushfire seasons: CSIRO

Australians are being warned to prepare for fire seasons to become more extreme. Globally the length of the fire season has increased by two weeks on average but in Australia, the season is longer by a month.

A bushfire jumps the Bells Line Road north of Lithgow, Thursday, Oct. 17, 2013. (AAP Image/Dean Lewins) NO ARCHIVING Source: AAP

While in the middle  of  record high flooding, it is not that easy to consider the danger of bush fires. Over the course of a few months in the 2019-20 summer, 3000 homes were destroyed, 24 million hectares of land was scorched and 33 lives were lost across Australia. The latest data from the C-S-I-R-O (Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation), shows the extreme conditions that led to the Black Summer fires have doubled in the past 40 years.