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The worst fire in Texas state history, destroyed over 1,500 homes. 2011: 1,748,636 acres (707,648 ha) Richardson Backcountry Fire: Alberta: The largest Canadian fire since 1950. 2011: 156,293 acres (63,250 ha) Las Conchas Fire: New Mexico: Third largest fire in New Mexico state history. 63 homes lost. Threatened Los Alamos National Laboratory. 2011
Fires included the Chetco Bar Fire and the Eagle Creek Fire, which also spread into Skamania County, Washington, United States. [11] [12] [13] 2018 – Camp Fire in California. Began November 8, 2018; caused 85 deaths and destroyed 18,804 structures. [14] [15] 2018 – Woolsey Fire in California, which broke out on the same day as the Camp Fire.
By the 1980s, in light of this new understanding, funding efforts began to support prescribed burning in order to prevent wildfire events. [3] In 2001, the United States implemented a National Fire Plan, increasing the budget for the reduction of hazardous fuels from $108 million in 2000 to $401 million. [4]
1276 – Third Fire of Lübeck, Germany, results in a comprehensive fire safety system. This was the last major fire in the city before bombing of WW II. 1327 – Fire of Munich, Germany, destroys one-third of the city, 30 deaths. 1405 – Fire of Bern, Switzerland, destroys 600 houses, over 100 deaths.
A fifth significant fire, the Kenneth Fire, has been fully contained. The extreme intensity of the windstorm (peak gusts were 100 mph (161 km/h) at the Mount Lukens Truck Trail in the eastern San Gabriel Mountains ) coupled with dry vegetation due to prolonged drought conditions caused fires to spread rapidly, and airborne embers set spot fires ...
NOAA's National Centers for Environmental Information (NCEI) has reported growing numbers of weather and climate-related events costing at least a billion dollars, [1] exceeding the 1980–2019 inflation-adjusted average of 6.6 such events. [2] This list of United States natural disasters is a list of notable natural disasters that occurred in ...
Second-deadliest disaster in United States history. Deadliest drug epidemic in United States history. 700,000 [3] 1981 – present HIV/AIDS in the United States: Pandemic Nationwide Fatalities estimated. Third-deadliest disaster in United States history. 675,000 [4] 1918 – 1920 1918 influenza pandemic: Pandemic Nationwide Fatalities estimated.
Peshtigo fire: Wisconsin, United States October 8, 1871: 2. 1,000+ Kursha-2 fire Soviet Union: August 3, 1936: 3. 453 Cloquet fire [72] Minnesota, United States October 12, 1918: 4. 418–476 Great Hinckley Fire: September 1, 1894: 5. 282 Thumb Fire: Michigan, United States September 5, 1881: 6. 240 1997 Indonesian forest fires [73] [74 ...