Chatsbury bushfire

The Chatsbury/Bungonia Bushfire of 1965 was a series of devastating bushfires that raged from 5th through 14 March 1965 (1) and destroyed the Southern Highlands, New South Wales villages of Tallong and Wingello as well as most of the surrounding orchards. Three people were killed.

28 homes were destroyed in Tallong, 31 in Wingello (2). The fire was eventually stopped (or burnt out) near Nowra on the South Coast.

References

NSW Rural Fire Service: A Brief History of Bushfire
(1) From a presentation given by the NSW Fire Service on 25 March 2006 at a seminar in the Tallong Village Hall
(2) Ibid; Same source as immediately above.

Bushfires in Australia

Australian Capital Territory	Canberra (2003)

New South Wales	Seaham (1939) Chatsbury (1965) New South Wales (1968) Eastern Seaboard (1994) Black Christmas / Warragamba (2001) Jail Break Inn (2006) Pulletop (2006) New South Wales (2013)

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

Tasmania	Black Tuesday (1967) Tasmania (2013)

Victoria	Black Thursday (1851) Red Tuesday (1898) Black Sunday (1926) Black Friday (1939) WW2 bushfires (1943–44) Victoria (1962) Victoria (1969) Western District (1977) Ash Wednesday (1983) Linton (1998) Eastern Victorian alpine (2003) Grampians region (2006) Eastern Victoria Great Divide (2006–07) Black Saturday (2009)

Western Australia	Western Australia (1961)

By national season	1925–26 1943–44 1954–55 1964–65 1982–83 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