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Major Fire
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Fire
An extensive fire swept the country inland from five mile beach -
Two Big Fires
January 1912 there were two more big fires—one near Little Oberon Bay and another on the east coast of Singapore Peninsula, over towards Biddy’s Camp. It swept down from the Singapore Peninsula grazing lease to Sealers’ Cove and destroyed some twenty thousand acres of the Park and its inhabiting wildlife -
Fire
The granite mountains were burned almost bare by fire. Where previously it had been a day’s hard labour to travel three or four miles through the tangle of bush in some parts of the Park the fire made it so easy that a horse could trot with little trouble over the bald waste -
Fire
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Major fire
Large area of the Park -
Fire
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Fire (and Hurricane)
The bushfire in 1943 accomplished what all bushfires in the preceding 100 years had failed to do. The Gully was burned to ashes. Many years have passed since that calamity, and regeneration is taking place gradually -
Major Fire
The greatest fire came in February 1951 when 75,000 acres of the Park were laid waste. Roughly 75% of the park was burnt -
Program for fuel reduction started
This created a period from 1951 to 1972 where fire was largely absent from the park with only two fires recorded. Not entirely clear when it finished but sometime after 1972 -
Fire
Several thousand acres between the Darby River and the Darby Saddle were burnt in the fire of autumn 1961 -
Fire
Easter period of 1962 about 30,000 acres of the Singapore Peninsula–Barry’s Hill district were again burned -
Burning for ecological purposes started
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Out of control burn
Burn started by staff got out of control and burnt 13% of the park, causing the evacuation of campers -
Major Fire
Lightning strike near Sealer's Cove started a fire that burned over 25,000 hectares. Much of the area had not been burned since 1951. The fire began on 8 February, the day after "Black Saturday" -
Flood
Flood. The one road in and out of the park was severely damaged by a freakish storm that dumped 370 millimeters of rain in a 24-hour period. Also created large environmental damage but allowed 40 new indigenous sites to be found inside the park.