^"2019–20 Australian bushfires—frequently asked questions (updates)". www.aph.gov.au. Australian Parliament House. Retrieved 5 September 2023. the Commonwealth Royal Commission into National Natural Disaster Arrangements 'struggled to obtain consistent burnt area data on a national scale', and found estimates of area burnt that ranged from 24.3 to 33.8 million hectares (…) The Commonwealth Department of Agriculture, Water and the Environment subsequently developed the National Indicative Aggregated Fire Extent Datasets in 2020, which estimated 39.8 million hectares were burnt in the 2019–20 fires.
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^Dixon, Robyn (August 11, 2021). "Siberia's wildfires are bigger than all the world's other blazes combined". The Washington Post. Retrieved February 10, 2024. forest fires that have burned more than 62,300 square miles since the beginning of the year, according to Greenpeace (…) The ministry estimates that the area burned in forest fires this year at slightly more than 30,000 square miles