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Brush fire in Myrtle Beach, the most destructive fire in terms of loss in state history. Destroyed 76 homes and damaged 97. [50] 2009: 164,500 acres (66,600 ha) Brittany Triangle Fire: British Columbia: Also known as the Lava Canyon fire, this was the largest fire in BC in 2009.
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 ] 1911
1940 – Second Great Fire of London, one of the most-destructive air raids of The Blitz. 1,500 were killed. 1942 – German air bombardment of Stalingrad, Soviet Union, resulting in firestorm and 955 fatalities (original Soviet estimate). 1943 – Hamburg, 45,000 killed (largest in an air-raid on Germany) 1943 – Kassel, 10,000 killed
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 Smokehouse Creek Fire is largest in Texas since 2005. East Amarillo Complex was the deadliest, Bastrop County Complex the most destructive.
The blaze spared no building, from homes and businesses to churches. More than 1,100 structures in all fell to the devastating fire, which jumped to the most destructive in Los Angeles history ...
Kursha-2 fire Soviet Union: August 3, 1936: 3. 453 Cloquet fire [73] Minnesota, United States October 12, 1918: 4. 418–476 Great Hinckley Fire: September 1, 1894: 5. 282 Thumb Fire: Michigan, United States September 5, 1881: 6. 240 1997 Indonesian forest fires [74] [75] Sumatra and Kalimantan, Indonesia September 1997: 7. 160–300 1825 ...
The first – and ultimately the most devastating fire – was burning in the Pacific Palisades, an affluent coastal neighborhood west of LA. Since the morning of January 7, it has engulfed more ...