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List of wildfires
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This is a list of notable wildfires.
Africa
- 2017 Knysna fires, South Africa
- 2021 Algeria wildfires
- 2021 Table Mountain fire, South Africa
- 2022 Moroccan wildfires
- 2024 Western Cape wildfires, South Africa
Asia
China
- 1987 – The Black Dragon Fire burnt a total of 18 million acres (73,000 km2; 28,000 sq mi) of forest along the Amur River, with 3 million acres (12,000 km2; 4,700 sq mi) destroyed on the Chinese side alone and spread to the Soviet side.[1]
- 1996 – Pat Sin Leng wildfire, Tai Po; 5 hikers killed (3 pupils and 2 teachers) on 10 February.[2]
India
- 2019 Bandipur forest fires
- 2016 Uttarakhand forest fires
- 2020 Uttarakhand forest fires
- 2020–21 Dzüko Valley wildfires
- 2021 Simlipal forest fires
Indonesia
Israel
- 1989 Mount Carmel forest fire
- 1995 Jerusalem forest fire[3]
- 2010 Mount Carmel forest fire – Started on 2 December 2010 and burned 41 km2 (16 sq mi) of forest, killing 44 people, most of them Israel Prison Service officer cadets, when a bus evacuating them was trapped in flames.
- November 2016 Israel wildfires
- 2021 Israel wildfires
Kazakhstan
- 2022 Kazakhstan wildfires
- 2023 Kazakhstan wildfires – 14 people died in a series of forest fires caused by lightning in the northeast of the country.[4]
Malaysia
Mongolia
Pakistan
South East Asia
- 1997 Southeast Asian haze
- 2006 Southeast Asian haze
- 2009 Southeast Asian haze
- 2010 Southeast Asian haze
- 2013 Southeast Asian haze
- 2015 Southeast Asian haze
- 2016 Southeast Asian haze
- 2017 Southeast Asian haze
- 2019 Southeast Asian haze
South Korea
- April 2000, Gangwon-do Gangneung wildfire
- March 2013, Gyeongsangbukdo Pohang wildfire.
Syria
- 2020 – Fires in Al-Suwayda Governorate in May,[5] followed by Al-Hasakah Governorate in the summer,[6] then in Latakia and Hama Governorates in September,[7][8] next in Latakia again, Homs, and Tartus Governorates in October.[9]
Vietnam
Arctic
According to the WTO in June 2019 arctic wildfires emitted 50 megatonnes (55 million short tons; 49 million long tons) of CO2. This was more than between 2010 and 2018 combined. Most carbon release was from Alaska and Siberia, but also included other arctic areas e.g., in Canada. In Siberia the temperature was about 10 °C (18 °F) higher in June 2019 than the average. In Anchorage, Alaska, on 4 July 2019, the temperature was 32 °C (90 °F), setting a new all-time record high temperature for the town.[10]
Europe
Croatia
- 2007 Croatian coast fires, burning 1,590 km2 (610 sq mi).
France
- The 1949 Landes Forest Fire burned 50,000 ha (120,000 acres) of forest land and killed 82 people.
- 2021 France wildfires
Germany
- In the fire on the Lüneburg Heath in Lower Saxony in August 1975, 74.18 km2 (28.64 sq mi) of heathland burned, killing 5 firefighters.
- In May/June 1992 near Weißwasser (Saxony) 16 km2 (6.2 sq mi) of forest burned. One firefighter was killed in an accident.
Greece
- 1985 forest fires burnt 105,000 hectares with the worst affected being around Kavala in eastern Macedonia and Thasos Island in the north Aegean.[11]
- 2000 forest fires were the worst forest fires to date and included the island of Samos in east Aegean and at Mount Mainalon and eastern Corinthia in the Peloponnese. The burnt area was 167,000 hectares which is the second highest in recent history (after the 2007 fires).[12]
- 2007 Greek forest fires were by far the worst fires in recent Greek history. Over 270,000 hectares were burnt mostly in the Peloponnese region (especially in Elis region) and southern Evia as well as Mount Parnitha near Athens.
- 2009 Greek forest fires saw 21,000 hectares burnt around Mount Penteli near Athens.
- 2018 Greek wildfires were the deadliest in recent history with over 100 deaths in and around the village of Mati near Athens.
- 2021 Greek wildfires were the worst fires since 2007 with over 125,000 hectares burnt mostly in northern Evia, the Elis region of Peloponnese and around Tatoi near Athens.
- 2023 Greek wildfires
Italy
Mediterranean
- 2009 Mediterranean wildfires in France, Greece, Italy, Spain, and Turkey in July.
- 2022 European and Mediterranean wildfires
Poland
- 1992:
- 10 August – a fire on the Noteć Forest burned 6,000 ha (15,000 acres) of forest.
- 26 August – Kuźnia Raciborska fire: on a fire in and around Kuźnia Raciborska destroyed 90.62 km2 (34.99 sq mi) of forest and killed two firefighters.[13]
- 2020: A fire in the Biebrza National Park burned 6,000 ha of forest.
Portugal
- August 2003 Wildfires, destroying 10% of Portuguese forests and killing 18 people.
- 2016 Portugal wildfires
- June 2017 Portugal wildfires and October 2017 Portugal wildfires, catastrophic series of fires that trapped and killed more than 100 people.
- 2018 - wildfires near the city of Portimao.[14]
Russiaedit
- July and August 1915 Siberian wildfires fires burned for 50 days and burned about 14 million ha.[15]
- 1921 Mari wildfires
- August 1935 – Kursha-2 settlement was burned out with 1,200 victims.
- 2003 Russian wildfires – more than 200,000 km2 (77,000 sq mi) (20 million hectares), primarily Boreal forest, were burned in southern Siberia from 14 March to 8 August. Direct carbon emissions were around 400-640 TgC (440–710 million short tons; 390–630 million long tons).[16]
- 2010 Russian wildfires – Drought and the hottest summer since records began in 1890 caused many devastating forest fires in European Russia.
- 2015 Russian wildfires – A series of wildfires in southern Siberia killed 26 people and left thousands homeless.[17]
- 2018 Russian wildfires
- 2019 Russian wildfires – 27,000 km2 (2.7 million ha; 6.7 million acres) were burning as of 2 August according to Russia's Federal Forestry Agency (3.3 million ha (8.2 million acres) according to Greenpeace).[18]
- 2020 Russian wildfires
- 2021 Russian wildfires
- 2022 Siberian wildfires
Spainedit
- 17 July 2005 – Guadalajara province – a forest fire caused by an improperly extinguished barbecue burned 130 km2 (50 sq mi) and killed 11 firefighters. The environmental councilor of Castilla-La Mancha, Rosario Arévalo, resigned from her position as a result.
- 2016 Benidorm forest fire – burnt more than 800 hectares (2,000 acres) and destroyed at least 20 homes.
- June 2019 – 10,000 acres (4,000 ha) burning near Tarragona.[19]
- 2019 Canary Islands wildfires
- 2023 Tenerife wildfire
Turkeyedit
Swedenedit
- 2014 Västmanland wildfire – a 191 km2 (74 sq mi) forest fire[20] with 1 verified death.[21]
- 2018 Sweden wildfires
Ukraineedit
- Wildfire near Kreminna, 1996 – around 70 km2 (7,000 ha)[22]
- Wildfire in Kherson Oblast (uk), 2007 – more than 87.5 km2 (87,500 ha)[23]
- 2020 Chernobyl Exclusion Zone wildfires – 470 km2 (47,000 ha)
United Kingdomedit
- May 2011 – Swinley Forest fire, Berkshire, England. Fire appliances from 12 counties attended over several days due to the large area of the fire. The fire service incident log for the call was over 500 pages long.[24][25]
- 2018 United Kingdom wildfires
- 2019 United Kingdom wildfires
- Cannich wildfire
North Americaedit
Canada and the United Statesedit
From 2007 to 2017, wildfires burned an average of 6.2 and 6.6 million acres (2.5 and 2.7 million ha) per year in the U.S. and Canada, respectively.[27]
Check out the US fire map at https://www.fireweatheravalanche.org/fire/ for more information.
† Indicates a currently burning fire
| Year | Size | Name | Area | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1825 | 3,000,000 acres (1,200,000 ha) | 1825 Miramichi fire | New Brunswick | Killed between 160 and 300 people. |
| 1845 | 1,500,000 acres (610,000 ha) | The Great Fire | Oregon | [28] |
| 1865 | 1,000,000 acres (400,000 ha) | The Silverton Fire | Oregon | [29] |
| 1853 | 450,000 acres (180,000 ha) | The Yaquina Fire | Oregon | [28] |
| 1868 | 300,000 acres (120,000 ha) | The Coos Fire | Oregon | [28] |
| 1870 | 964,000 acres (390,000 ha) | Saguenay Fire | Quebec | [30][31][32] |
| 1871 | 1,200,000 acres (490,000 ha) | Peshtigo Fire | Wisconsin | Killed between 1,200 and 2,500 people and has the distinction of being the conflagration that caused the most deaths by fire in United States history. It was overshadowed by the Great Chicago Fire that occurred on the same day. |
| 1871 | 2,500,000 acres (1,000,000 ha) | Great Michigan Fire | Michigan | Overshadowed by the Great Chicago Fire that occurred on the same day. |
| 1876 | 500,000 acres (200,000 ha) | Bighorn Fire | Wyoming | |
| 1881 | 1,000,000 acres (400,000 ha) | Thumb Fire | Michigan | Killed 282 people. |
| 1889 | 300,000 acres (120,000 ha) | Santiago Canyon Fire | California | |
| 1894 | 160,000 acres (65,000 ha) | Great Hinckley Fire | Minnesota | Killed 418+ people and destroyed 12 towns. |
| 1898 | 2,500,000 acres (1,000,000 ha) | South Carolina | [28] | |
| 1902 | 238,900 acres (96,700 ha) | Yacolt Burn | Washington and Oregon | 65+ deaths, plus 20 other fire events from 1910 - 1952. |
| 1903 | 464,000 acres (188,000 ha) | Adirondack Fire | New York | |
| 1908 | 64,000 acres
(25,900 ha) |
1908 Fernie Fire | British Columbia | Town of Fernie, BC destroyed. 22 casualties reported. Cause: logging slash.[33] |
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