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United States agencies stationed at the National Interagency Fire Center in Idaho maintain a "National Large Incident Year-to-Date Report" on wildfires, delineating 10 sub-national areas, aggregating the regional and national totals of burn size, fire suppression cost, and razed structure count, among other data.
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 ...
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The report reiterated that the first priority of all federal wildland fire programs was firefighter and public safety. With regard to prescribed fires and prescribed natural fires, the report stated that, "Wildland fire will be used to protect, maintain, and enhance resources and, as nearly as possible, be allowed to function in its natural ...
Second-most destructive wildfire in New Mexico state history. Began in the Lincoln National Forest and was started by lightning. 2012: 87,284 acres (35,323 ha) High Park Fire: Colorado: Started by lightning, it is the second largest wildfire in Colorado state history by size. 2012: 18,247 acres (7,384 ha) Waldo Canyon Fire: Colorado
This led to the definition of a categorical classification (Bark Hazard) [2] used to evaluate the potential threat of ember attack. The Stringybark species of Eucalypt is particularly notorious for contributing large flaming sections of bark that due to their size, weight and shape, can be carried up to several kilometres away.
Fires will often break out during a dry season, but in some areas wildfires also commonly occur during times of year when lightning is prevalent. The frequency over a span of years at which fire will occur at a particular location is a measure of how common wildfires are in a given ecosystem.
2005 – Eyre Peninsula bushfire, South Australia, 9 killed, at least 113 injured and 79 houses destroyed; 2006 – Pilliga forest fire burned out 740 km² on just its first day; 2007 – October 2007 California wildfires; 2008 – Summer 2008 California wildfires, second costliest in US history to extinguish.