Fig. 3: Wildfire burned area by states and territory in forest ecosystems for the 1930 to 2019 fire years.
From: Multi-decadal increase of forest burned area in Australia is linked to climate change
New South Wales and Australian Capital Territory (dark blue), Victoria (red), Queensland (light blue), South Australia (black), Western Australia (violet) and Tasmania (green). Data for 1930–2018 stacked bars are State and Territory agencies fire histories, supplemented with MODIS for Queensland in 2016–2018. Data for 2019 fire year are National Indicative Aggregated Fire Extent Dataset (NIAFED) by States and Territories (stacked bar), AVRHRR-Landgate (filled triangle), and MODIS (filled circle). See “Methods”: Burned area data.
