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Rank Name Country Area burned (ha) Deaths Ref. 1 2023–2024 Australian bushfire season Australia 144,537,200 10 [1]2 2024 South American wildfires Brazil Bolivia Chile
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. 1994 – Isabela Island forest fire, Galápagos Island, Ecuador, 12 km² lost in April.
A midsummer bonfire in Seurasaari, Helsinki, Finland On the beaches of Duindorp (pictured) and Scheveningen, both part of The Hague, teams annually compete to build the world's largest bonfire [1] A bonfire is a large and controlled outdoor fire, used for waste disposal or as part of a celebration.
A fast-spreading wildfire that erupted this week northwest of Los Angeles roared from nothing to nearly 10,000 acres − in a matter of hours.
With a final size of between 1,400,000 and 1,700,000 hectares (3,500,000 and 4,200,000 acres), it is the single largest recorded fire in North American history. The authorities allowed the fire to burn freely, following local forest management policy considering the lack of settlements in the region. The Chinchaga fire produced large amounts of ...
Huge bonfires will burn in loyalist areas across Northern Ireland late on Sunday night to usher in the main date in the Protestant loyal order parading season – the Twelfth of July.
The Soberanes Fire was a large wildfire that burned from July to October 2016 in the Santa Lucia Mountains of Monterey County, California.It destroyed 57 homes and killed a bulldozer operator, and cost about $260 million to suppress, making it at the time the most expensive wildfire to fight in United States history.