1980 Ash Wednesday bushfires

Ash Wednesday I
Location	Adelaide Hills, South Australia
Statistics
Date(s)	20 February 1980
Burned area	3,770 ha (14.6 sq mi)
Cause	Faulty powerlines, arson, and negligence after years of extreme drought
Buildings destroyed	76
Injuries	40

The first Ash Wednesday fires were a series of bushfires that began in the Adelaide Hills, South Australia, on Ash Wednesday, 20 February 1980.^[1] 51 homes and 25 other buildings were destroyed, and 75 farms were affected. 40 people were injured, with 150 left homeless. The fire burnt an area of 3,770 ha (14.6 sq mi),^[2] and caused an estimated $34,000,000 damage.^[3]

In 1983, after the Ash Wednesday fires in February that year, the 1980 fire became known in South Australia as the "first" Ash Wednesday, or Ash Wednesday I.^[2]

References

↑ "Natural Hazards". Archived from the original on 11 February 2009.
1 2 http://www.cfs.sa.gov.au/site/education/schooleducation/bushfire_history.jsp
↑ http://www.ema.gov.au/ema/emadisasters.nsf/9d804be3fb07ff5cca256d1100189e22/4b698fde4f114d57ca256d3300057bcc?OpenDocument

Bushfires in Australia

Australian Capital Territory	Canberra (2003)

New South Wales	Seaham (1939) Chatsbury (1965) Eastern Seaboard (1994) Black Christmas (2001) / Warragamba (2001) Junee (2006) Pulletop (2006) New South Wales (2013)

South Australia	Adelaide Hills (1939) Black Sunday (1955) Wandilo (1958) Ash Wednesday I (1980) Ash Wednesday II (1983) Eyre Peninsula (2005) Kangaroo Island (2007) Cherryville (2013) Sampson Flat (2015) Pinery (2015)

Tasmania	Black Tuesday (1967) Tasmania (2013) Tasmania (2016)

Victoria	Black Thursday (1851) Red Tuesday (1898) Black Sunday (1926) Black Friday (1939) WWII bushfires (1943–44) Ash Wednesday (1983) Linton (1998) Eastern Victorian alpine (2003) Mount Lubra (2006) Eastern Victoria Great Divide (2006–07) Black Saturday (2009) Great Ocean Road (2015–16)

Western Australia	Western Australia (1961) Western Australia (2015) Esperance (2015)

By national season	1925–26 1943–44 1954–55 1964–65 1982–83 1993–94 1996–97 2002–03 2003–04 2004–05 2005–06 2006–07 2007–08 2008–09 2009–10 2010–11 2011–12 2012–13 2013–14 2014–15 2015–16

Coordinates: 34°54′40.28″S 138°42′26.46″E / 34.9111889°S 138.7073500°E / -34.9111889; 138.7073500

This article is issued from Wikipedia - version of the 9/23/2016. The text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution/Share Alike but additional terms may apply for the media files.