List of Fires - Forest and Countryside Fires

Forest and Countryside Fires

• 1871—The Great Michigan Fire, killed over 200 in Michigan
• 1910—Great Fire of 1910 (aka Big Blowup; Big Burn), Washington, Idaho and Montana, over 3 million acres (12,000 km²), at least 85 dead. This fire set new policies, and created new organizations for fighting wildfires.
• 1911—Great Porcupine Fire, Ontario
• 1916—Matheson Fire, Ontario, July 29. Six towns destroyed, two more damaged, 223 people dead.
• 1921—1921 Mari wildfires, 35 killed
• 1922—Great Fire of 1922, Northern Ontario, several towns destroyed including 90% of the City of Haileybury
• 1933—Tillamook Burn, Oregon
• 1935—Kursha-2, 1200 killed
• 1949—Landes Mountain forest fire, 256,000 acres (1,040 km2) lost, 240 killed, include 82 firefighters, on August.
• 1949—Mann Gulch fire
• 1963—Paraná forest fire, 20,000 square kilometres destroyed, killing at least 110, with 5,000 houses burned on September.
• 1966—Serra de Sintra forest fire,outskirt of Lisbon, Portugal, 26.6 km² destroyed, killing 26.
• 1967—1967 Tasmanian fires in Tasmania, Australia
• 1971—1971 Kure forest fire, Kure, western Honshū, Japan, 18 firefighters killed on April 27
• 1975—Fire on the Lüneburg Heath in north Germany, 80 square kilometres destroyed, 7 fatalities including 5 firefighters killed on August 10
• 1983—Ash Wednesday fires in south-eastern Australia killed 75 people in South Australia and Victoria.
• 1987—1987 Daxing'anling wildfire in People's Republic of China, burned for a month
• 1988—Yellowstone fires of 1988 largest, most expensive wildfire in the history of the National Park Service, at the world's first National Park
• 1994—Isabela Island forest fire, Galápagos Island, Ecuador, 12 km² lost on April.
• 1994—South Canyon Fire on Storm King Mountain near Glenwood Springs, Colorado kills fourteen firefighters on July 6.
• 2003—Cedar Fire destroyed over 550 homes and many acres of land, Southern California
• 2003—2003 Okanagan Mountain Park Fire, British Columbia
• 2005—Yangyang County and Goseong County forest fire, 200 buildings, include Naksansa temple's facilities lost in Gangwon, South Korea on April 5.
• 2006—Pilliga forest fire burned out 740 km² on just its first day
• 2007—October 2007 California wildfires Fires in California
• 2008—Summer 2008 California wildfires Second costliest in US history to extinguish.
• 2009—Black Saturday bushfires In February, at the end of a severe heatwave, bushfires swept through the Australian state of Victoria killing 173 people, injuring around 500, destroying at least 2029 homes.
• 2010—2010 Russian wildfires, 2000 buildings, 8000 km² destroyed, 54 killed.
• 2010—Mount Carmel forest fire in Israel lead to 44 fatalities.
• 2011—Fires across parts of Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland, during the Easter holidays, destroying many parks and forests.
• 2011—Summer fire outbreak across Texas claimed almost 4 million acres in over 21,000 fires. Approximately 7,000 homes were lost and approximately 50,000 homes in direct danger were saved by fire departments across the state.