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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 ...
The 2017 BC fire season is notable for three reasons: first, for the largest total area burnt in a fire season in recorded history; second, for the largest number of total evacuees in a fire season (Estimated 65,000 evacuees); and third, for the largest single fire ever in British Columbia. [76] [77] 2017: 1,295,000 acres (524,000 ha)
Burned over 1.2 million acres. Occurred on the same day as the Great Chicago Fire and the Great Michigan Fires. Peshtigo Fire: 1910 North Idaho and Western Montana: 87/? The largest Fire in U.S. history burned an area the size of Connecticut (3,000,000 acres [12,000 km 2]), killing 87 people, including 78 firefighters Great Fire of 1910 [6 ...
The Bridge fire, the largest of the four, was nearing 50,000 acres in size Wednesday afternoon, and was 0% contained. It began Sunday. It began Sunday. Read more: SoCal fires burn 100,000 acres ...
Altogether, the fire is among the largest in the Lower 48 since reliable record-keeping began in the 1980s. The inferno is one of three fires burning in the Texas Panhandle – with no end in sight.
The biggest, the August Complex in 2020, burned over a million acres. That was the only individual fire that crossed the million-acre threshold, but more and more often, annual totals of acres ...
Active flame front of the Zaca Fire, 2007, at the time the second-largest fire on record in California Active flame front of the Zaca Fire, the 12th-largest fire on record for California as of 2022 Smoldering fire front of the Zaca Fire, 2007 Moonlight fire, California, September 2007 Ground to crown flame spread, Day Fire, near Old Highway 99, California, September 12, 2007 The 162,702-acre ...
In August, the Mendocino Complex Fire became the second largest fire in California history [7] and the Mendocino Complex Fire became the state's largest. Fires in British Columbia were the second worst in the history of the province, with over 945 square kilometres (234,000 acres) burned. [8] 2018 British Columbia wildfires, Canada