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1963 – Fretz Building, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, twelve-alarm fire was the largest in city history. 50 homes and multiple businesses destroyed along with original fire building. 1964 – The Bellflower Street Conflagration in Boston destroyed 19 apartment buildings and damaged 11. [citation needed]
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.
Great New Orleans Fire (1788) Great New Orleans Fire (1794) Rossville Fire of 1963; Great Fire of New York (1776) Great Fire of New York; Great New York City Fire of 1845; 1924 Nixon Nitration Works disaster
Looking at nearly 2,000 wildfires in California, including those that burned across state boundaries, the 25 largest have all happened this century. This ranking was based on a fire’s total acreage.
At least 25 people have been killed and more than 40,000 acres burned as the wildfires race through southern California ... the city’s mayor, Karen Bass ... the second-largest in the nation with ...
May 28 – Beverly Hills Supper Club fire killed 165 and injured more than 200 in Southgate, Kentucky; third deadliest nightclub fire in U.S. history. June 21 – Saint John City Hall fire in Saint John, Canada, killed 21. [104] December 10 – A fire at the Wenonah Hotel in Bay City, Michigan, killed 10. [105]
The NFPA's data shows that 25 wildfires in U.S. history have killed at least 10 people, including Hawaii's Lahaina fire of 2023 and major California fires in 2017, 2018, and 2020.
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)