A bushfire is the uncontrollable burning of a bush, forest or woodland area and is most common in Australia but can also occur in many other places around the world like America who refer to a bushfire as a wildfire.
Many factors contribute to the reason why Australia is susceptible to bushfires. Not all areas of Australia are vulnerable to bushfires but usually the South of Australia receives the most fires because of its very warm and dry climate unlike the North which is very rich in moisture and receives more floods than bushfires. Australia is most famous for its koalas and eucalypt trees but eucalyptus trees are one of the main reasons why Australia is so susceptible to bushfires because of the oils contained inside the trees’ leaves.
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Aboriginal people used fire as a tool for increasing the productivity of their environment, Europeans saw fire as a threat.
• History of Bushfires in Australia
Australia is very prone to bushfires and it should not be surprising that Australia has received many large and uncontrollable fires throughout history. The most recent and probably the worst bushfire which occurred in Victoria on the 7th of February 2009 called Black Saturday. There was also Ash Wednesday which happened in Victoria and South Australia in 1983 killing 75 people and destroying 1900 homes. Another major bushfire that happened was Black Tuesday which swept over the south-east coast of Tasmania in 1967. Those are just some few but deadly fires that had a significant effect on Australians until this