Though fires are larger and more frequent at the end of the dry season, several fires burned in Western Australia and Northern Territory in April 2015.
Land Fires
Preventive management fires can prevent even larger fires later.
Image of the Day Heat Fires
The beginning of the dry season also brings the beginning of the burning season to fire-prone savannas and grasslands.
Image of the Day Land Fires
Fires
A fire in a Western Australia state forest near Dwellingup billows smoke over the Indian Ocean on December 15, 2009.
Atmosphere Land Fires
Smoke from bushfires in southwestern Australia travels hundreds of kilometers over the Indian Ocean in this image from February 13, 2012.
The late-spring fire follows what has been a dry winter and spring across most of the country.
Land Drought Fires
Acquired September 24, 2009, these true-color images show wide-area and close-up views of fires in Queensland, Australia.
As is common during the dry season, satellites detected many fires in Northern Territory.
Hazardous fire conditions led to widespread, large fires in Queensland, Australia in mid-November.