Images & Animations Black summer bushfire burns and scarring on NSW South Coast

The smoke, flames and burn scars can be seen clearly in the image, which was captured on 31 December 2019 Sentinel-2 satellites. The large brownish areas depict burned vegetation and provide an idea of the size of the area affected by the fires – the brown ‘strip’ running through the image has a width of approximately 50 km and stretches for at least 100 km along the New South Wales south coast.

See it on the European Space Agency's website

Creative Commons - Attribution International 4.0, © Commonwealth of Australia (Geoscience Australia) 2021. Input data from Copernicus Sentinel-2 courtesy of the European Space Agency.