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The 1998 Florida wildfires, sometimes referred to as the Florida Firestorm, was a wildfire event involving several thousand separate woodland and mixed urban-rural wildfires which wrought severe damage during the summer months of 1998. Wildfires sparked mainly by lightning threatened to converge into single, vast blazes, crossed natural ...
The fire destroyed roughly one-third of Slave Lake and cost $1.8 billion. 2011: 4,011,709 acres (1,623,481 ha) 2011 Texas wildfires: Texas: Wildfires began in November 2010 and continued to rage due to a severe drought that lasted 271 months. 47.3% of all acreage burned in the United States in 2011 was burned in Texas.
Pages in category "1990s wildfires in the United States" ... 1998 Florida wildfires; Fountain Fire; J. Jones Fire (1999) K. Kinneloa Fire; L. Laguna Fire (1993) M.
As a former forester with the Florida Forest Service, I have been aware of many instances where wildfires damaged homes. The worst in my recent memory took place on May 17, 1985, a day that became ...
On December 15, 2021, a wildfire siege began in Western and Central Kansas due to blustering winds and drought. More than 10 wildfires were reported with an estimated burned area of more than 163,000+ acres. The wildfire outbreak resulted in the deaths of two individuals and the injuries of 3 others.
The Palisades and Eaton fires alone, which started on Jan. 7, have now burned about 60 square miles — an area almost as big as Washington, D.C., which is 68.3 square miles.
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In total, wildfires have burned over 29,000 acres. Over 180,000 residents have been ordered to evacuate, and many more — including celebrities — have lost their homes .