@ai6yr severe fire “#DavidBowman, a professor of #pyrogeography and fire science from the #UniversityOfTasmania, said the #Victorian fires appeared to be a mirror image of the #BlackSummer fires.

“This is a different scenario than the previous fire disaster we had in 2019-20 when the #eucalypt #forests were bone dry and they were the things burning and there wasn’t a lot of #fuel in the rural landscape because it’d been a prolonged #drought,” he said.

“This seems to be, at the moment, more of a grassland story right now, where the rural lands are burning because we’ve had good wet years.”

source <https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-01-16/victoria-bushfires-weather-satellite-capture-images-of-blazes/106225070>