1996–97 Australian bushfire season

1996–97 Australian bushfire season
Location	Australia
Statistics
Date(s)	October 1996 – January 1997
Buildings destroyed	44+
Injuries	40
Fatalities	3

The 1996–97 Australian bushfire season was the season for bushfires in Australia over the summer of 1996–1997. The most prominent fires during the season were in the Dandenong Ranges and the Mornington Peninsula in the state of Victoria.

Timeline

October 1996

In October 1996, 1 house was destroyed in a bushfire near Ravensbourne in southeast Queensland.^[1]

January 1997

From 19–21 January 1997, fires burnt over 400 hectares through much of the Dandenong Ranges and the Mornington Peninsula, precipitated by over forty degree Celsius dry heat and strong northerly winds. Three people were killed and forty injured. Forty-three houses were destroyed and another 45 damaged.^[2] Fires began at all locations except the Dandenongs on the 19th, the Dandenongs fires began on the morning of the 21st in the foothills of the western face of the ranges. It was suspected that the fires in the Dandenongs were deliberately lit.

The areas most affected by these fires included:^[2]

Creswick
Dandenong Ranges – three deaths

References

↑ "Understanding bushfire: trends in deliberate vegetation fires in Australia: Queensland" (PDF). Australian Institute of Criminology. p. 11. Retrieved 13 January 2014.
1 2 EMA.gov.au

Overview of the fires & community response

Bushfires in Australia

Australian Capital Territory	Canberra (2003)

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

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

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