1974–75 Australian bushfire season

The fires killed six people, approximately 57,000 farm animals, farmers' crops, and destroyed nearly of fencing. Stephen J. Pyne qualified the fire season as the most destructive event in terms of hectares burned among historical fires in Australia, but added that "the 1974/75 fires had almost no impact and much of the damage was found by satellite after the fact." Nonetheless, fire historian Danielle Clode notes that these fires remain significant for being the biggest bushfire event by area ever recorded. In 2011, retired Australian government scientist David Packham warned that "we are in for one big season" that could repeat the 1974 summer fires. == Areas impacted ==

Australia, being a federation of States and territories, breaks up the 1974–1975 fires by state or region: ;New South Wales Six people killed. Area burned: . 50,000 livestock lost, of fencing destroyed. to Balranald, Cobar Shire, Moolah–Corinya—most of the Western Division. The Moolah-Corinya fire was "the largest fire ever contained by man in New South Wales without the help of the weather." It burned and its perimeter was over . ;Northern Territory Area burned: . The fire reached Barkly Tableland, Victoria River district, near Newcastle Waters. ==References==