KEY FINDINGS 1. Climate change is increasing the risk of bushfires in Victoria and lengthening fire seasons.

This report provides an update to the previous Climate Council report on bushfire risk and NSW and the ACT. We begin this report by describing the background context of fire and its history in NSW and the ACT. We then outline the link between bushfires and climate change, before considering how bushfire danger weather is...

Climate change is increasing the risk of bushfires in Queensland. While damaging bushfires are less common in Queensland than other states in Australia, climate change is driving an increase in extreme heat in Queensland, leading to higher bushfire risk.

This report focuses on how climate change is affecting, and will continue to affect rural communities that are largely reliant on primary agricultural production.

Australia’s bushfire preparedness is under threat from climate change as bushfire seasons here and in the Northern Hemisphere increasingly overlap, putting new demands on critical shared firefighting aircraft. This report had found that the length of the fire season increased by almost 19% globally between 1978 and 2013. Longer fire seasons are reducing opportunities for...