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The Great Smoky Mountains wildfires were the deadliest wildfires in Tennessee, [12] as well as the deadliest wildfires in the eastern U.S. since the Great Fires of 1947, which killed 16 people in Maine. [13] [14] In addition, the fires were also the deadliest and most destructive of the 2016 Southeastern United States wildfires.
Save for areas near the Pacific coast, North America tends to be wetter in the East and drier in the West. The Western United States is a region of widespread, high-intensity wildfires. Aggressive suppression in the 20th century reduced wildfire size and intensity, but the resulting buildup of fuels has led to a resurgence in the last couple ...
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A wildfire, forest fire, or a bushfire is an unplanned, uncontrolled and unpredictable fire in an area of combustible vegetation. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] Depending on the type of vegetation present, a wildfire may be more specifically identified as a bushfire ( in Australia ), desert fire, grass fire, hill fire, peat fire, prairie fire, vegetation fire, or ...
Name used in the default map caption; image = USA Tennessee location map.svg The default map image, without "Image:" or "File:" image1 = USA Tennessee relief location map.svg An alternative map image, usually a relief map, which can be displayed via the relief or AlternativeMap parameters; top = 38.1 Latitude at top edge of map, in decimal ...
The Tennessee Highway Patrol reported that 72-year-old Thomas Boyce lost control of his Chevrolet pickup truck on a Washington County highway and crashed into an ambulance carrying 52-year-old ...
March 5 – Tennessee's first case of COVID-19 is confirmed in Williamson County, marking the start of the COVID-19 pandemic in Tennessee. 2023 March 27 – A mass shooting occurs at a private Presbyterian Church in America parochial school in Nashville, Tennessee, killing three children, three adults, and the perpetrator.