A recent bushfire in Kadnook, western Victoria, which destroyed at least one property and burned more than 1,000 hectares of land, is being investigated due to suspicion it was deliberately lit. This ...

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. But sometimes the relationship flips: ...

The Australian summer has started to unleash its power. On Monday, the Victorian town of Walpeup reached 47.1°C, and towns in Queensland, western New South Wales, South Australia and the Northern ...

Tasmania just shivered through its coldest spring in 22 years and its wettest in 37 years, leading to a favourable seasonal fire outlook for the state that gave no indication of increased activity.

Acacia Hills residents have been warned to leave their homes if they are not bushfire prepared as a large blaze continues to ...

Catastrophe data aggregator PERILS has published its third industry loss estimate for the Victoria Bushfires which took place ...

SYDNEY, Jan 11 – Human remains were found in Australia’s southeast where bushfires raging for days have razed buildings, cut power to thousands of homes and burned swathes of bushland, police said on ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The Longwood bushfire burns, in a location given as Longwood, Victoria, Australia, in this handout image released on January 7, ...

Large swathes of the Gold Coast face significant bushfire risk, amid predictions of a ‘Super El Nino’ event that will bring ...

Millions of Aussies could be at risk of catastrophic urban bushfires similar to those that devastated Los Angeles last year, ...

How and why did a bushfire classification vanish?

EXCLUSIVE: A Sydney company is working with university leaders on trials that could see oversized drones deployed as a new line of defence against bushfires while also offering extra ocean ...