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2003 – Canberra bushfires killed 4 and destroyed over 500 homes; 2003 – Cedar Fire, San Diego, tenth-largest California brush fire that killed 15 and destroyed 2,232 homes. 2007 – Greek forest fires destroyed 2,100 buildings. 2008 – Camden Market Fire, which caused severe damage to one of North London's most famous shopping districts.
Wildfires can happen in many places in the United States, especially during droughts, but are most common in the Western United States and Florida. [1]Average U.S. acreage burned annually by wildfires has almost tripled in three decades.
Black Christmas bushfires 2001–2002 (New South Wales) with 750,000 hectares burnt. Canberra bushfires of 2003; Black Saturday bushfires of 2009 (Victoria) with 400,000 hectares burnt and the highest death toll of over 170 deaths. 2019–20 Australian bushfire season – "Black summer" – the worst bushfire season in modern Australian history ...
Wildfire suppression has had a long and varied history in the United States. For most of the 20th century, any form of wildland fire, whether it was naturally caused or otherwise, was quickly suppressed for fear of uncontrollable and destructive conflagrations such as the Peshtigo Fire in 1871 and the Great Fire of 1910.
Start Date: Jan. 7, 2025. Size in Acres: 10,600. Containment %: 0%. What to know: Burning in the Altadena/Pasadena area, the Eaton Fire has claimed two civilian lives, according to Cal Fire. The ...
A small part of the Centralia mine fire after being exposed during excavation in 1969 Steam rising through a fissure in the ground in the closed-off area of former Pennsylvania Route 61 in 2010. The melted snow, which covered the ground around it, shows areas where heat is escaping from the ground below.
The 2023 fires were compared to the 2016 Fort McMurray wildfire [21] [22] and the 2021 Lytton wildfire. [23] The 2023 fire season was mainly driven by anthropogenic climate change, with temperatures in Canada from May to October 2.2 °C (4 °F) higher than the 1991–2020 average. [24]
2003 – Canberra bushfires, Australian Capital Territory, 4 killed and 435 injured; 2003 – Cedar Fire, destroyed over 550 homes and many acres of land, Southern California; 2003 – 2003 Okanagan Mountain Park Fire, British Columbia; 2005 – Eyre Peninsula bushfire, South Australia, 9 killed, at least 113 injured and 79 houses destroyed