A large, uncontrolled wildfire in scrubland or bushland, especially common in Australia.
Compound of 'bush' and 'fire'. The term is particularly associated with Australian English where 'bush' means scrubland vegetation. It became prominent in 20th-century English.
Australian bushfires can travel at 30 mph and reach temperatures of 2000°F—they're so intense that they create their own weather systems and lightning!
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