Survivor accounts reveal how quickly evacuation routes become fatal, and why the danger of getting behind the wheel is often underestimated.

Bushfires are strongly driven by weather: hot, dry and windy conditions can combine to create the perfect environment for flames to spread across the landscape. Subscribe to our newsletter for the ...

Over the past decade, southern Australia has suffered numerous extreme weather and climate events, such as record-breaking heat waves, bushfires, two major droughts and even flash flooding.

Some of the world's most destructive bushfires take place in the southern state. Its unique mix of fierce winds, high fuel loads and rugged terrain are to blame.

PERILS, the Zurich-based catastrophe insurance data provider, has provided its first insurance industry loss estimate for the Victoria Bushfires, which ...

Residents who lived through the 2019-20 bushfires on the NSW South Coast say this summer's fires triggered traumatic memories ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A bushfire rips through Mount Lawson State Park in Australia's Victoria state (Handout) (Handout/Forest Fire Management ...

Several homes have been destroyed as an out-of-control bushfire rips through suburbs just north of Sydney and temperatures soar to 40C. A number of homes have been damaged or lost as bushfires tear ...

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