List of Australian bushfire seasons

This is a list of specific seasons of bushfires in Australia including some significant bushfire events from each season.

Events are listed if they cause fatalities, destroy houses, or burn more than 100,000 hectares (250,000 acres) of land.

Across Australia, seasonality of bushfires varies significantly; however, is generally aligned with the weather patterns in the south of the continent so that each season begins in June (the beginning of the Australian winter) and runs through the following May (the end of the Australian autumn).

The worst season recorded is 1974-75, with 117 million hectares (290 million acres) burned, equivalent to 15 percent of Australia's physical land mass that equates to the entire area of France, Spain, and Portugal combined.

NASA MODIS burned area detections from June 2001 to May 2019 showing regions affected by fires in Australia in red
NASA image showing the Snowy River bushfire in Eastern Victoria at night in February 2014. The bushfire which lasted for 70 days grew to 165 800 ha and was roughly the same size as Melbourne. Also visible are the fires at the Hazelwood coalmine and Kilmore. Source: NASA Earth Observatory .
NASA satellite imagery on 7 December 2019 showing bushfires across the east coast of Australia.