Not remotely close. As of January 8, the fire had burned an estimated 10.5 million hectares, and as of January 14 it is up to 18.6 million hectares. Your number is way out of date. As I mentioned before, as the fire fronts get larger, the burn rate increases exponentially. The burned acreage almost doubled in just 6 days.
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Yep. South and east territories fire season under normal conditions starts in December and ends in April. Although the current fire season started way early in September. Totally not normal conditions. The northern territories fire season starts in April through September. Although there have been several fires already in the northern territories.