List of wildfires

This is a list of notorious wildfires:

North America

In Australia

* 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 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
* Black Tuesday bushfires of 2005 (Eyre Peninsula South Australia)

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.

pain

* July 17, 2005 - 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, 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.

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