The damage to people and their homes is also likely to be overwhelmingly due to the increasing population spreading themselves through the bush.
Fires of the same intensity are going to impact more people than they did in the past.
“While Australia is particularly fire-prone, natural fires account for only six percent of known causes of vegetation fires attended by fire services. Over 90 percent are the result of people's actions, and more often than not the result of deliberate ignitions; incendiary (maliciously lit fires) and suspicious fires account for one-half of known fire causes in Australia, and are the largest single cause of vegetation fires”
https://aic.gov.au/publications/tandi/tandi350
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