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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)
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.
Story at a glance Nationally, more than 90 active wildfires have consumed close to 814,000 acres so far and just four are considered contained. Wildfires have burned more than 6.6 million acres ...
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 ...
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 ...
More than 110 active fires covering 2,800 square miles (7,250 square kilometers) were burning in the U.S. on Friday, according to the National Interagency Fire Center. Fires are becoming bigger ...