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2014 Northwest Territories fires Canada: 3,000,000 0 [13] 10 2020 California wildfires United States: 1,779,730 33 [14] 11 2010 Bolivia forest fires Bolivia: 1,500,000 0 [15] 12 2006–2007 Australian bushfire season Australia: 1,300,000 5 [16] 13 2017 British Columbia wildfires Canada: 1,148,000 0 [17] 14 2019 Amazon rainforest wildfires ...
Sweat Farm Road/Big Turnaround Complex Fire: Georgia: Largest recorded fire in Georgia history. 26 structures were lost. 2007: 124,584 acres (50,417 ha) Florida Bugaboo Fire: Florida: Largest fire on record in Florida. 2007: 18,000 acres (7,300 ha) Warren Grove Fire: New Jersey: Forest fire in the New Jersey Pine Barrens caused by a flare from ...
1988 – Yellowstone fires of 1988 largest, most expensive wildfire in the history of the National Park Service, at the world's first national park. 1991 – Oakland firestorm of 1991, Oakland, California, U.S., killed 25 people and injured 150 others. 1994 – Isabela Island forest fire, Galápagos Island, Ecuador, 12 km² lost in April.
The two biggest wildfires ravaging the Los Angeles area have burned at least 10,000 homes, buildings and other structures, officials said Thursday as they urged more people to heed evacuation ...
The Eaton Fire, the second-biggest fire, is burning in northern Los Angeles, near Pasadena. Smaller fires, including the Hurst Fire and the Sunset Fire , have also erupted within the sprawling ...
The wildfires caused significant deforestation of the Amazon rainforest, and also impacted several other international biomes including the Pantanal wetlands, becoming the second largest series of wildfires in the 21st century next to the 2023–24 Australian bushfire season, with the 2024 Brazil wildfires alone reaching fourth in area burned. [3]
“Tiny, mighty and fast” fires have blazed through America's west in the last couple of decades as the world warms, said University of Colorado fire scientist Jennifer Balch. “The big culprit ...
1916 – Paris, Texas Fire of 1916. Largest of 3 historical fires that destroyed most of the central business district and a large residential section. 1917 – The Halifax Explosion, the largest man-made explosion before the atomic bomb, sparked fires throughout Halifax, Nova Scotia.