Australia:
5 million hectares burnt.
New South Wales
The total area burned in NSW has reached 3.41m hectares, according to the RFS.
110 fires, of which almost 60 are uncontained, are still burning.
Six lives lost.
829 buildings destroyed with another 100 possible over last weekend.
Major Fires: Gospers Mountain blaze (areas hardest hit include Lithgow and along the Bells Line of Road in the upper Blue Mountains); Green Wattle Creek fire (devastating Wollondilly Shire villages of Buxton and Bargo, and wiping out small town of Balmoral); *Currowan blaze (has hit communities near Nerriga, north of Batemans Bay).
* ‘Our’ fire.
Victoria
Two blazes still burning uncontrolled in Tambo Crossing in East Gippsland and Hotspur, Digby, in the western district.
Bushfires in East Gippsland burning since Thursday
South Australia
Huge fire burning in Adelaide Hills.
One life lost.
25,000 hectares burned within a 127km perimeter.
72 homes confirmed lost along with 404 other buildings and 227 vehicles over the weekend.
Significant losses to crops, including vineyards and hundreds of sheep killed.
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Queensland
About 60 fires burning within containment lines across the state.
Western Australia
Lives and homes threatened by bushfires in Perth’s Hills region around Roleystone, in the city’s south-east and a massive blaze at Yanchep, north of Perth, last week before being downgraded.
Firefighters battled heatwave conditions for much of the six-day fire, saving thousands of properties.
One house and a Yanchep petrol station were destroyed; about 13,000 hectares were burned.
Tasmania
Two bushfires north of Launceston were brought under control at the end of November.
Northern Territory
NT last saw major fires in September when there were nine active fire grounds.
Source: AAP.
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