 In December fires in the region around Norseman blocked access to the Eyre Highway and the Nullarbor and caused the highways of the region to be blocked, so as to prevent any recurrence of the 2007 death of truck drivers on the Great Eastern Highway.Between 26 December 2019 and 1 January 2020, as a result of a lightning strike, a fire tore through of land in Stirling Range National Park in the southwest of the state, burning more than half of the park.The pyrocumulus cloud from the fires could be seen south in Albany.