Australia has had bushfires in the past that were far worse than the ones today. The 1974-75 fires burnt 117,000,000 hectares, which is six times as much as the fires of 2019-20.
Fact:
The fires of 1974-75 were mostly of grassland in the Northern Territory and Queensland. The authorities didn’t even know they had occurred till after the fact. The 2019-20 fires were in forested areas and were four times more damaging than the previous worst such conflagration.
