Though fires are larger and more frequent at the end of the dry season, several fires burned in Western Australia and Northern Territory in April 2015.
Land managers in the Kimberley region of Australia set low-intensity, controlled fires early in the dry season to protect from destructive blazes later in the year.
This image from the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) on NASA’s Aqua satellite on June 17, 2009, shows fires (locations outlined in red) burning across the Top End and spreading thin plumes of smoke toward the northwest.