I loathe putting up another series of depressing fire maps - but after a chat with @jmorganecology, I made these showing the extensive fires that have occurred in the Victorian Alps since 2003, which have been added to this last few days. Another thread... This map is centred on the Hotham and Bogong High Plains area and shows the extent of major bushfires between 1970 - 2000. Fires generally occured at the lower elevations, like the 1998 Caledonia fire in the south.

I've been thinking a bit about the East Gippsland fires and how they compare to fire extent over the last 70 years. So I mapped them. Thread! I grouped all fires per decade and excluded fires under 1000 ha to simplify the maps. I also excluded planned burns. No maps of fire are perfect so read them as indicative estimates. So - The 1950s: