Australia Fires 2020 Deaths

At least 65 deaths due to bushfires have occurred in Australia from FY 2010 to FY 2020 Table 1.

Australia fires 2020 deaths. Those figures are revealed in an interim report entitled Australias 2019-2020 Bushfires. A total of 34 people had died in the bushfires since October 2019. Smoke from the Australian bushfires of the 2019-20 summer caused an estimated 445 deaths and put more than 4000 people in hospital a.

For the month of May there were 12973 deaths which is 76 more deaths than average and 53 more than in 2020. Ten scientists from the University of Sydney University of New South Wales University of Newcastle Charles Sturt University and BirdLife Australia contributed the majority of the work. Updated 832 AM ET Tue July 28 2020.

The current fire season is far from over especially for the southern states of Australia. Heather Yourex-West reports on the plan to save thousands of people stil. The Wildlife Toll commissioned by the World Wide Fund for Nature and believed to be world first research.

Kangaroo Island off the south of Australia was particularly badly hit with around half of the island affected by the flames. CNN Nearly three billion animals were killed or displaced by Australias devastating bushfires. Australias bushfire crisis was one of the worst wildlife disasters in modern history.

The monstrous bushfires decimating southeastern Australia have now killed 17 people. Australia fires were far worse than any prediction During the peak of the crisis in January scientists had estimated that 125 billion animals had been killed in New South Wales and Victoria alone. 54 occurred during FY 2020 note.

The standardised death rate increased to 53 deaths from 51 in 2018. There were 169301 registered deaths in 2019 an increase of 10808 since 2018. As of 2010 Australian bushfires accounted for over 800 deaths since 1851 and in 2012 the total accumulated cost was estimated to be A 16 billion.