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For the first time in my life I'm terrified of what this summer has the potential to be like this year. I'm in QLD and summer is always tough but I'm really worried about how high the temperatures might rise this year.
European here. A friend of mine bought a house in Cairns a while back. Is it an area that's known to have problems with wildfires? I realised this is a vague question but she was asking me about whether or not she should sell the house based on the global financial situation, but she never mentioned wildfires. I assume she's factoring it in based on the insane wildfires you guys had a couple of years back but you can never be sure
My family live near Cairns. Typically it would be pretty low risk for fires because it's very tropical and wet. It will likely get more humid and hot though as temperatures continue to increase. Tell her to go see the reef before that's gone if she hasn't already.
She's a native of Port Douglas originally so she's been up to her ears in reef stuff for a while. Thanks for the response, seems like it's a good spot for now
Cairns is pretty tropical so it doesn't get many bushfires. It's the areas south of there which are drier and tend to burn.
As others mentioned, fire risk is low, but there is a non zero chance she will just up and die because cairns summers are hot AF.
Hahaha, thanks
No Cairns is not a high risk area for bush fires (what we call wildfires). The heat this year might be horrible but fires shouldn't be an issue that far into the tropics on the coastline