Wildfire

2016 Waroona bushfire

2016 · 25.00° S, 133.00° E

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When
2016
Kind
Wildfire
Coordinates
25.00° S, 133.00° E
Description
bushfire in Peel and South West regions of Western Australia
Date from
year in its name

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2016 Waroona–Yarloop bushfire

Bushfire in Peel and South West regions of Western Australia

The 2016 Waroona–Yarloop bushfire started in the east in the forests of the Darling Scarp before reaching the Swan Coastal Plain and continued westwards until it reached the Indian Ocean. It started as a lightning strike that caused two fires in the Lane Poole Reserve state forest near Dwellingup, Western Australia on 5 January 2016 and then burnt close to Waroona and then through the historical town of Yarloop, dest…

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