List of forest fires

Famous Forest Fires

In North America

• Miramichi Fire in New Brunswick, which burned three million acres (12150 km²) and killed 160 people. 1825
• Yachina Fire in Oregon, which burned 450,000 acres (1,800 km²) 1846
• Nestucca Fire in Oregon, which burned 320,000 acres (1,300 km²) 1853
• The Silverton Fire , the worst recorded fire in Oregon, which burned an estimated one million acres (4,000 km²) 1865
• The Coos Fire in Oregon, which burned 300,000 acres (1,200 km²) 1868
• The Peshtigo Fire in Wisconsin which burned 1,200,000 acres (4900 km²) in one day October 8, 1871 (overshadowed by the Great Chicago Fire, which occurred on the same day)
• Bighorn Fire in Wyoming, which burned 500,000 acres (2,000 km²) 1876
• Thumb Fire in Michigan, burned a million acres (4,000 km²) and killed 250+ people 1881
• The Hinckley Fire in Minnesota, burned 160,000 acres (650 km²), killed 418 people, and destroyed 12 towns 1894
• The Adirondack Fire in New York, which burned 450,000 acres (1,800 km²) 1903
• The Great Fire of 1910 , burned about three million acres (12,000 km²) in Idaho and Montana over two days (August 20 and 21), killed 86 people
• Capitan Gap fire, New Mexico 1950
• The Tillamook Burn, which swept through the same region of Oregon four times, and burned a total of 355,000 acres (1,400 km²) 1933, 1939, 1945, and 1951
• A series of fires in Maine over ten days, burned 175,000 acres (710 km²) and killed 16 people 1947
• The Laguna Fire burned 175,425 acres (710 km²), 382 homes and kills eight in San Diego County in September 1970. It was the largest fire in California history until the Cedar Fire.
• Yellowstone National Park Fire, 800,000 acres (3,200 km²), 1988
• Oakland Hills firestorm, killed 25 and destroyed 3469 homes and apartments within the California cities of Oakland and Berkeley, between October 19 and 22, 1991.
• Glenwood Springs, Colorado1994
• Florida, 2200 fires, during 1998 drought, over 300,000 acres (1,200 km²) burned including 150 homes, $390 million timber lost, 80,000 evacuees, $133 million in fire suppression costs.
• Mesa Verde National Park 2000
• Rodeo-Chediski fire, Arizona, 2002 467,066 acres (1,890 km²) of woodland burned, June 18 to July 7, 2002, and threatened, but did not burn the town of Show Low, Arizona.
• Durango, Colorado fires 2002, 915,000 acres (3,700 km²) burned 9 firefighter deaths, 235 homes destroyed
• The Florence/Sour Biscuit Complex Fire , burned 499,570 acres (2,000 km²) in southwestern Oregon between July 13 and September 5, 2002
• Major fire inferno in the Okanagan district, British Columbia covering around 500,000 acres (2,000 km²), displacing more than 5,000 inhabitants, in August and September 2003
• The Cedar Fire burned 280,278 acres (1,134 km²), 2,232 homes and killed 14 in San Diego County. The largest fire in California history, it was one 15 major fires in Ventura, Los Angeles, San Bernardino, and San Diego counties in California covering 721,791 acres (2,920 km²), killing 24, displacing 120,000 and destroying 3,640 homes in October 2003. Damage estimated at 2 billion USD (See NASA images: [1] [2])

In Europe

• Kuźnia Raciborska Fire in Poland, burned 90.62 km² of forest and killed three people (including two firefighers) on August 26, 1992.