Causes of Bushfires
Miscellaneous
Equipment use
Burning off/debris
Arson
Lightning
Smoking
Campfires
Railway cause
Children
Oxygen
Fuel
Heat
Temperatures generally needs to be above 27 degrees and needs to land on coal for spark to be lit of a cigarette but. It also tends to happen if cigarettes are flicked out of a car by a person.
Fire spreading from another fire clearing land or burn rubbish, garbage, crop stubble or meadows which is bush fire ignition.
When people light fire on purpose for varied and complex reasons. Around half of all bushfires are lit on purpose or are very suspicious.
Break failures in trains can cause friction and sparks which are sometimes igniting crops on the other side of the tracks which may cause a fire.
If campfires aren't properly put out or extinguished, then it could create a fire or fire hazard.
Sparks could spread by using equipment such as chainsaws, mowers, angle grinders, etc. Seven fires started from equipment use at the Sunshine Coast started by lawn mowers
They are fascinated by fire and don't know that it might cause homes to be destroyed.
It is the other things that don't fit into categories also known as power lines, firearms, blasting, glass refraction, electrical fences and many more.
Blowing on a campfire can burn it more fiercely and the wind can make the fire burn more quickly. In places where oxygen is limited the bushfires can burn for days
Heat comes from lightning that strikes a dry patch of plants. Less than often, heat comes from the sparks that can happen when a rock falls onto another and scratches it.
Plants provide fuel for bushfires. Leaf litter and dried grass are most likely to burn. Mostly green leaves don't burn easily because they have water supplied in them but if there is a fire that happened and it is a very dry, windy day, the green leaves can actually burn to. There more fuel there is in the area for the fire to burn, the bigger the fire can get. Managers try to remove dead plants or carefully burn small amounts of plants to reduce the fuel for the fire so that it doesn't get any bigger.
Lightning is the most common as it ignition small sparks in remote areas and may turn sparks into bushfires.