Due to extreme heat during late December 2014 and early January 2015, a series of bushfires occurred in Adelaide and its surroundings (Australia), becoming the region’s most severe fires since 1983. The fires lasted from 2 - 8 January 2015, incinerated more than 125 km² of land, and destroyed more than 30 houses in the Adelaide suburbs. The image sequence presents, from left to right, the Adelaide region at 31 December 2014 , 2 January, and 4 January 2015. Extensive smoke plumes are well visible at 2 January, while the dark-green patch in the middle part of the 4 January image indicates the area that has been burned down by the fires.