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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 ...
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.
Big Scrub Fire: Florida The fire spread at 6 miles per hour (9.7 km/h), the fastest spreading fire in US Forest Service history. [37] 1937 1,700 acres (690 ha) Blackwater Creek Fire: Wyoming Killed 15 firefighters. [28] 1947: 175,000 acres (71,000 ha) Great Fires of 1947: Maine: A series of fires that lasted ten days; 16 people killed.
The horror is truly unfathomable; at press time there were 24 people killed, 23 unaccounted for, 150,000 people forced to evacuate and countless homes that burned to ash as whipping winds carried ...
The Florida Forest service deployed 18 tractor plow units, multiple fixed wing aircraft, and helicopter units in addition to the many local fire departments that have responded to fight the fire.
A series of fires across the state, the most severe of which was the Port Huron fire. The combined Michigan fires killed over 200 people and burned about 1.2 million acres. Occurred on the same day as the Great Chicago Fire and the Peshtigo Fire. The Great Michigan Fire: 8 October 1871 Wisconsin 1,500–2,500/? Deadliest wildfire in world history.
In two days, 131 homes were completely burned, and another 200 damaged from a wildfire in Palm Coast. Florida wildfire, smoke map: Track latest wildfires, red flag warnings.
Pages in category "1989 natural disasters" The following 3 pages are in this category, out of 3 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. 0–9.