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Few can recall a year as disruptive and chaotic as 2020. With the year suffocated by COVID-19 woes, it feels like a lifetime ago we were watching the horrific images emerge from Australia between July 2019 and February 2020, when the Black Summer fires engulfed significant swathes of the country s east and south-west, following one of the hottest and driest 12 months on record.
In total, over 15,000 fires broke out – two of these, in New South Wales, burned more land in the state than any fire season during the last 20 years (Filkov
et al 2020) – and 21% of Australia s temperate forests burned (Boer