Bushfire | Australia

6Twelve years of drought, compounded by a severe heatwave, led to the bushfires that struck the state of Victoria, Australia, on 7 February, 2009. ¹ , ² In the ‘Black Saturday bushfires’, the worst bushfires in the nation’s history, 173 people died, and more than 2,300 houses were destroyed, displacing more than 7,500 people. ³