List of wildfires 1599548 225331792 2008-07-13T03:35:18Z 24.176.171.47 /* North America */ {{Unreferenced|date=August 2007}} This is a list of '''notorious [[wildfire]]s''': ==North America== {| class="sortable wikitable" |- bgcolor="#CCCCCC" ! width=5% | Year ! width=15% | Size ! width=20% | Name ! width=10% | Area ! width=50% | Notes |- | 1825 || <span style="display:none">{{formatnum:{{padleft:3000000|7|0}}}} </span>3,000,000 acres (12,000 km²) || [[Miramichi Fire]] || [[New Brunswick]] || Killed 160 people. |- | 1846 || <span style="display:none">{{formatnum:{{padleft:450000|7|0}}}} </span>450,000 acres (1,800 km²) || [[Yachina Fire]] || [[Oregon]] || |- | 1853 || <span style="display:none">{{formatnum:{{padleft:320000|7|0}}}} </span>320,000 acres (1,300 km²) || [[Nestucca Fire]] || [[Oregon]] || |- | 1865 || <span style="display:none">{{formatnum:{{padleft:1000000|7|0}}}} </span>1,000,000 acres (4,000 km²) || [[Silverton Fire]] || [[Oregon]] || Worst recorded fire in state's history |- | 1868 || <span style="display:none">{{formatnum:{{padleft:300000|7|0}}}} </span>300,000 acres (1,200 km²) || [[Coos Fire]] || [[Oregon]] || |- | 1871 || <span style="display:none">{{formatnum:{{padleft:1200000|7|0}}}} </span>1,200,000 acres (4900 km²) || [[Peshtigo Fire]] || [[Wisconsin]] || Killed over 1,000 people. Overshadowed by the [[Great Chicago Fire]] occurring the same day |- | 1876 || <span style="display:none">{{formatnum:{{padleft:500000|7|0}}}} </span>500,000 acres (2,000 km²) || [[Bighorn Fire]] || [[Wyoming]] || |- | 1881 || <span style="display:none">{{formatnum:{{padleft:1000000|7|0}}}} </span>1,000,000 acres (4,000 km²) || [[The Great Michigan Fire]] see also [[Thumb Fire]] || [[Michigan]] || Killed 200+ people |- | 1889 || <span style="display:none">{{formatnum:{{padleft:800000|7|0}}}} </span>~{{convert|40000|acre|km2|0}} || [[Santiago Canyon Fire of 1889]] || [[California]] || Once reported as the largest fire in recorded California history, later shown to be much smaller |- | 1894 || <span style="display:none">{{formatnum:{{padleft:160000|7|0}}}} </span>160,000 acres (650 km2) || [[Hinckley Fire]] || [[Minnesota]] || Killed 418 people and destroyed 12 towns |- | 1903 || <span style="display:none">{{formatnum:{{padleft:450000|7|0}}}} </span>450,000 acres (1,800 km2) || [[Adirondack Fire]] || [[New York]] || |- | 1910 || <span style="display:none">{{formatnum:{{padleft:3000000|7|0}}}} </span>3,000,000 acres (12,000 km2) || [[Great Fire of 1910]] || [[Idaho]]-<br>[[Montana]] || Killed 86 people |- | 1911 || <span style="display:none">{{formatnum:{{padleft:500000|7|0}}}} </span>500,000 acres (2,000 km2) || [[Cochrane Fire]] || [[Ontario]] || Killed 73 people |- | 1916 || || [[Cochrane-Matheson Fire]] || [[Ontario]] || Killed 228 (U.O. 400+) people and destroyed both towns, the former burnt again after just five years. |- | 1918 || <span style="display:none">{{formatnum:{{padleft:100000|7|0}}}} </span>100,000 acres (400 km2) || [[Cloquet Fire]] || [[Minnesota]]-<br>[[Wisconsin]] || Killed between 400 and 500 people |- | 1933 || <span style="display:none">{{formatnum:{{padleft:240000|7|0}}}} </span>240,000 acres (970 km2) || [[Tillamook Burn]] || [[Oregon]] || Swept through the same region of Oregon four times |- | 1939 || <span style="display:none">{{formatnum:{{padleft:190000|7|0}}}} </span>190,000 acres (769 km2) || [[Tillamook Burn]] || [[Oregon]] || Swept through the same region of Oregon four times |- | 1945 || <span style="display:none">{{formatnum:{{padleft:180000|7|0}}}} </span>180,000 acres (730 km2) || [[Tillamook Burn]] || [[Oregon]] || Swept through the same region of Oregon four times |- | 1947 || <span style="display:none">{{formatnum:{{padleft:175000|7|0}}}} </span>175,000 acres (710 km2) || [[The Great Fires of 1947]] || [[Maine]] || A series of fires that lasted ten days; 16 people killed |- | 1948 || <span style="display:none">{{formatnum:{{padleft:645000|7|0}}}} </span>645,000 acres (2,580 km2) || [[Mississagi/Chapleau fire]] || [[Ontario]] || |- | 1949 || <span style="display:none">{{formatnum:{{padleft:4500|7|0}}}} </span>4,500 acres (18 km2) || [[Mann Gulch fire]] || [[Montana]] || Killed 13 firefighters |- | 1950 || <span style="display:none">{{formatnum:{{padleft:17000|7|0}}}} </span>17,000 acres (69 km2) || [[Capitan Gap fire]] || [[New Mexico]] || |- | 1951 || <span style="display:none">{{formatnum:{{padleft:38000|7|0}}}} </span>38,000 acres (154 km2) || [[Great Forks Fire]] || [[Washington]] || |- | 1951 || <span style="display:none">{{formatnum:{{padleft:32700|7|0}}}} </span>32,700 acres (130 km2) || [[Tillamook Burn]] || [[Oregon]] || Swept through the same region of Oregon four times |- | 1953 || <span style="display:none">{{formatnum:{{padleft:1300|7|0}}}} </span>1,300 acres (5.3 km2) || [[Rattlesnake Fire]] || [[California]] || Killed 15 firefighters. Well known textbook case used to train firefighters. |- | 1970 || <span style="display:none">{{formatnum:{{padleft:175425|7|0}}}} </span>175,425 acres (710 km2) || [[Laguna Fire]] || [[California]] || 382 homes destroyed and 8 people killed; the largest fire in the state's history until the [[Cedar Fire]] |- | 1988 || <span style="display:none">{{formatnum:{{padleft:800000|7|0}}}} </span>793,880 acres (3,213 km2) || [[Yellowstone fires of 1988]] || [[Wyoming]]-<br>[[Montana]] |- | 1991 || <span style="display:none">{{formatnum:{{padleft:1520|7|0}}}} </span>{{convert|1520|acre|km2|1}} || [[Oakland Hills firestorm]] || [[California]] || Killed 25 and destroyed 3469 homes and apartments within the cities of Oakland and Berkeley |- | 1994 || <span style="display:none">{{formatnum:{{padleft:2115|7|0}}}} </span>{{convert|2115|acre|km2|1}} || [[South Canyon fire]] || [[Colorado]] || Killed 14 firefighters |- | 1995 || <span style="display:none">{{formatnum:{{padleft:2115|7|0}}}} </span>{{convert|7000|acre|km2|1}} || [[Long Island Wildfires]] || [[New York]] || |- | 1998 || <span style="display:none">{{formatnum:{{padleft:300000|7|0}}}} </span>300,000 acres (1,200 km2) || Unnamed || [[Florida]] || 2200 fires, during drought season; burned 150 homes, $390 million timber lost, 80,000 evacuees, $133 million in fire suppression costs |- | 2000 || <span style="display:none">{{formatnum:{{padleft:48000|7|0}}}} </span>48,000 acres (190 km2) || [[Cerro Grande Fire]] || [[New Mexico]] || Burned about 420 dwellings in [[Los Alamos, New Mexico]], damaged >100 buildings at [[Los Alamos National Laboratory]]; $1 billion damage, worst fire in state's recorded history |- | 2002 || <span style="display:none">{{formatnum:{{padleft:150,700|7|0}}}} </span>{{convert|150700|acre|km2|1}}|| [[McNally Fire]] || [[California]] || Largest fire in Sequoia NF history. |- | 2002 || <span style="display:none">{{formatnum:{{padleft:467066|7|0}}}} </span>{{convert|467066|acre|km2|1}} || [[Rodeo-Chediski fire]] || [[Arizona]] || Threatened, but did not burn the town of [[Show Low, Arizona]] |- | 2002 || <span style="display:none">{{formatnum:{{padleft:137760|7|0}}}} </span>{{convert|137760|acre|km2|1}} || [[Hayman Fire]] in [[Pike National Forest]] || [[Colorado]] || 9 firefighter deaths, 600 structures fires |- | 2002 || <span style="display:none">{{formatnum:{{padleft:499570|7|0}}}} </span>{{convert|499750|acre|km2|1}} || [[Biscuit Fire|Florence/Sour Biscuit Complex Fire]] || [[Oregon]] || |- | 2003 || <span style="display:none">{{formatnum:{{padleft:84750|7|0}}}} </span>{{convert|84750|acre|km2|1}} || [[Aspen Fire]] || [[Arizona]] || Destroyed large portions of [[Summerhaven, Arizona]] |- | 2003 || <span style="display:none">{{formatnum:{{padleft:500000|7|0}}}} </span>{{convert|500000|acre|km2|1}} || [[2003 Okanagan Mountain Park Fire|Okanagan Mountain Park Fire]] || [[British Columbia]] || Displaced 45,000 inhabitants, destroyed 239 homes and threatened urbanized sections of [[Kelowna, British Columbia|Kelowna]]. |- | 2003 || <span style="display:none">{{formatnum:{{padleft:91281|7|0}}}} </span>{{convert|91281|acre|km2|1}} || [[Old Fire]] || [[California]] || 993 homes destroyed, 6 deaths. Simultaneous with the Cedar Fire. |- | 2003 || <span style="display:none">{{formatnum:{{padleft:280278|7|0}}}} </span>{{convert|280278|acre|km2|1}} || [[Cedar Fire]] || [[California]] || Largest fire in California history; burned 2,232 homes and killed 15 in San Diego County. Simultaneous with 15 other fires in [[Southern California]] (including the Old Fire) covering 721,791 acres (2,920 km2), killing 24, displacing 120,000 and destroying 3,640 homes. Damage from combined fires estimated at 2 billion [[USD]] |- | 2003 || <span style="display:none">{{formatnum:{{padleft:90769|7|0}}}} </span>{{convert|90769|acre|km2|1}} || [[B&B Complex Fire]] || [[Oregon]] || Large fire in Central Oregon between Black Butte and Mount Jefferson. The fire closed off a large section of state HWY 20. The fire began as two separate fires. Both started on August 19th and lasted until September 5th. |- | 2005 || || [[September 2005 California wildfires]] || [[California]] || |- | 2006 || <span style="display:none">{{formatnum:{{padleft:40200|7|0}}}} </span>{{convert|40200|acre|km2|1}} || [[Esperanza Fire]] || [[California]] || 10 buildings destroyed, 5 firefighters killed. The blaze started on October 26th and scorched {{convert|40200|acre|km2}}, or more than {{convert|60|sqmi|km2}}, of forest and brush before being fully contained October 30th. It destroyed 34 homes and 20 outbuildings. |- | 2007 || <span style="display:none">{{formatnum:{{padleft:468938|7|0}}}} </span>{{convert|468938|acre|km2|1}} || [[2007 Georgia/Florida wildfires|Sweat Farm Road/Big Turnaround Complex Fire]] || [[Georgia (U.S. state)|Georgia]] || Largest recorded fire in Georgia history. 26 structures were lost. |- | 2007 || <span style="display:none">{{formatnum:{{padleft:3,500|7|0}}}} </span>3,500 acres || [[Angora Fire]] || [[California]] || 3 injuries. |- | 2007 || <span style="display:none">{{formatnum:{{padleft:124584|7|0}}}} </span>{{convert|124584|acre|km2|1}} || [[2007 Georgia/Florida wildfires|Florida Bugaboo Fire]] || [[Florida]] || Largest fire on record in Florida. |- | 2007 || <span style="display:none">{{formatnum:{{padleft:363052|7|0}}}} </span>{{convert|363052|acre|km2|1}}||[[Milford Flat Fire]] || [[Utah]] || Largest fire on record in Utah. |- | 2007 || <span style="display:none">{{formatnum:{{padleft:653100|7|0}}}} </span>{{convert|653100|acre|km2|1}}|| [[Murphy Complex Fire]] || [[Idaho]] || |- | 2007 || <span style="display:none">{{formatnum:{{padleft:127244|7|0}}}} </span> {{convert|240207|acre|km2|1}} || [[Zaca Fire]] || [[California]] || The blaze was started [[July 4]] by sparks from water pipe repair equipment. The fire had a containment cost of $117 million. It was contained on September 2. It is California's second largest recorded fire. |- | 2007 || <span style="display:none">{{formatnum:{{padleft:127244|7|0}}}} </span> {{convert|500000|acre|km2|1}} || [[California wildfires of October 2007]] || [[California]] || A series of wildfires that killed 9 people and injured 85 (including 61 firefighters). Burned at least 1,500 homes from the [[Santa Barbara County]] to the [[U.S.–Mexico border]]. Aggravated by [[Santa Ana winds]] that reached up to 85 [[mph]] (140 [[km/h]]). The largest fire, the Witch (Creek), was located in [[San Diego county]]. |- | 2008 || <span style="display:none">{{formatnum:{{padleft:127244|7|0}}}} </span> {{convert|13709|acre|km2|1}} || [[Trigo Fire]] || [[New Mexico]] || Burned from [[15 April]] to [[22 May]]. 59 homes were destroyed. The fire had a containment cost of $11 million. |- | 2008 || || Evans Road Wildfire || [[Eastern North Carolina]] || |- | 2008 || {{convert|801726|acre|km2|1}} || [[2008 California wildfires| California fires]] || [[California]]|| In Northern California, the fires were mostly started by lightning. In Santa Barbara (Southern California), the Gap fire endagered homes and lives. The Basin Complex and Gap fire are the highest priority currently. Caused bad air quality in parts of California. |} <!---==In Africa==---> ==In Australia== {{Wildland Firefighting}} * Black Friday Bushfires of 1939 ([[South Australia]]) ([[Country Fire Service]]) * Black Sunday Bushfires of 1955 (South Australia) * [[1961 Western Australian bushfires]] * [[Ash Wednesday fires]] of 1980 and 1983 ([[Victoria (Australia)|Victoria]] and [[South Australia]]) ([[Country Fire Service]],[[Country Fire Authority]]) * [[1994 Eastern seaboard fires]] * The November 1997 fire in the Sydney area ([[New South Wales Rural Fire Service]]) * Sydney forest fires in 2001-2002 * [[Canberra bushfires of 2003]] * [[Eyre Peninsula Bushfire|Black Tuesday bushfires]] of 2005 (Eyre Peninsula South Australia) <!---==In Central America==---> ==In Europe== ===Germany=== * In the [[Lüneburg Heath]] in [[Lower Saxony]], [[Germany]] 74.18 km2 of heathland burned, killing five firefighters in August 1975. ===Greece=== * Penteli Fire in Greece affected in June and July, 1995 in the [[Penteli]] mountains and lasted for almost the weekend from Friday. * 1998 forest fires in Greece, a series of forest fores affected the Athens area, [[Avlona]], [[Taygetus]] and [[Olympus]] mountains and other places. The fire began in the beginning of the summer season. * 2000 forest fires in Greece, a series of forest fires affected Greece including [[Agioi Theodoroi]] and eastern Corinthia at the beginning of July 2000 * 2005 East Attica Fire in [[Greece]] - Forest fires ravaged East Attica on July 28, 2005 from [[Agia Triada Rafinas]] to west of [[Rafina]]. The fires began at around 11:00 (EET) (8:00 AM GMT) consuming 70 km2 of forests, properties and farmlands. The fire spread quickly after a few hours with winds of up to 55 to 70 km/h and spread near the suburban housings of Athens near Rafina causing dense smoke. The fire reached Kallitechnio and the settlements by around 3:30 (EET) and devastated homes leaving some people homeless and evacuated people in areas around Agia Triada Rafinas, Agia Kyriaki Rafinas, Kallitechnio, [[Loutsa]], [[Neos Vourtzas]] and the [[Rafina]] area mostly on the hillside areas. Pine trees were devastated. Firefighters didn't put out the blaze until the winds calmed down around 5:00 (EET). It took hundreds of fire trucks, firefighters, planes, 65 firefighting helicopters from all over the surrounding areas and most of Greece to put out the blaze. A stretch of Marathonos Avenue became closed. * July 29, 2005 - a day after the enormous Attica fire, another series of fires occurred throughout Greece, entirely in [[Preveza]] including [[Monolithi]] consuming properties and a campground, [[Ioannina]] and [[Xiromeni]] of [[Aitoloakarnania]]. * [[2007 Greek forest fires]] ===Italy and France=== * [[2000 fires in Southern Europe]] in July 2000 consumed forests and buildings in southern [[France]], parts of Iberia, [[Corsica]], and most of [[Italy]] including the southern part during the heatwave dominating southern Europe with 40 to 45 °C temperatures caused the phenomena. ===Poland=== * Kuznia Raciborska Fire|Kunia Raciborska Fire in [[Poland]], burned 90.62 km2 of forest and killed two firefighters on [[August 26]], [[1992]]. A third casualty is often mentioned, but the woman concerned did not die in the fire itself - she was involved in a collision with a fire engine that went into a skid. ===Portugal === * August 2003- Wildfires in August 2003 ===Russia and Soviet Union=== * [[1921 Mari wildfires]] * August 1935 - [[Kursha-2]] settlement was burned out with 1200 victims. ===Spain=== * [[July 2005|July 17, 2005]] - [[Guadalajara (province)|Guadalajara]] province, [[Spain]], a 130 km2 forest fire and 11 dead firefighters. Regional responsible of Department of the Environment out of post because of this deadly toll. A [[barbecue]] sparked deadly blazes. ==In South America== *The 2002 forest fire in [[Bolivia]] ==In Asia== ===Indonesia=== Forest fires in Indonesia occurred annually. When there is a weather pattern disturbance because of strong [[El Nino]], the number and the distribution of forest fires in Indonesia increased significantly. When there is a weather pattern disturbance because of strong [[La Nina]], the number and the distribution of forest fire in Indonesia decreased. An El Nino is usually followed by La Nina on the following year. The strength of disturbance is determined by [[Southern oscillation index]]. Large forest fire in Indonesia because of strong El Nino: *1982 and 1983 - Massive forest fires in Kalimantan and East Sumatra. 36,000 km2 (8.9 million acres) of forest burned down. There are other forest fires in Java and Sulawesi on the same year. *In 1987, 1991 and 1994, there were large scale forest fires in Kalimantan and East Sumatra, Java, Sulawesi in Indonesia. More than 3,300 km2 (815,453 acres) of forest were destroyed by forest fire. *1997 and 1998 - Colossal, unprecedented forest fires in Kalimantan and East Sumatra. 97,000 km2 (24.1 million acres) of forest were destroyed, more than 2.6 Gigatonnes of Carbon Dioxide was released to the atmosphere. The underground smouldering fire on the peat bogs continue to burn and ignite new forest fire each year during dry season. There are other forest fires in Java and Sulawesi on the same year. *From 1999 to 2005: there was annual forest fires in Kalimantan, Sumatra, Java and Sulawesi. Every year, forest are burned by farmers, plantation owners and continuous underground fire (since 1997). 1,345 km2 (332,357 acres) of forest were destroyed by forest fire. ===Japan=== *April 27 1971 - {{convert|850|acre|km2|sing=on}} lost massive forest fire at [[Kure, Hiroshima|Kure]], western [[Honshu]], Japan. Underconstruction workers are using fire, fire are move to wither weed, while firefighters working digestion fire, they got involved fire with strong wind. 18 firefighters are killed, this accident. This forest fire continued 1-day. ==References== [[Category:Forestry]] [[Category:Wildfires| ]]