2013–14 Australian bushfire season

2013–14 Australian bushfire season
NASA MODIS burned area detections from June 2013 to May 2014
Date(s)Winter (June) 2013 – Autumn (May) 2014
LocationAustralia
Impacts
Deaths4 total
Structures destroyed571+ total
  • 371 houses
  • 200+ non-residential structures

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-residential buildings as a result of wild fires between 1 June 2015 and 31 May 2016. The season also suffered 4 fatalities; 2 died in New South Wales, 1 in Western Australia and 1 in Victoria. One death was as a direct result of fire, 2 died due to unrelated health complications while fighting fires on their property, and a pilot contracted by the NSW Rural Fire Service died during an accident.

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