List of fires

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Template:QuoteJack London after the 1906 San Francisco earthquake and fire[1]

This article is a list of notable fires.

Town and city fires

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Painting of the Cathedral and the Academy building after the Great Fire of Turku, by Gustaf Wilhelm Finnberg, 1827

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Building or structure fires

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Transportation fires

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Mining fires

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Date Location Dead/injured Details References
1884 to present New Straitsville, Ohio Coal mine fire ignited by striking miners World's Greatest Mine Fire[2]
31 May 1892 Příbram, now in the Czech Republic 319 killed, injured unknown. Fire in Marine iron mine
7 September 1895 Osceola Township, Houghton County, Michigan 30 killed, injured unknown. Osceola copper mine caught fire [3]
7 April 1911 Colliery, Throop, Pennsylvania 72 killed, injured unknown. Fire at the Prince-Pancoast, leaving 72 dead by suffocation [4]
1915 to present Luzerne County, Pennsylvania Laurel Run mine fire ignited when a carbide lamp set fire to a timber support
1956 Belgium 262 killed, injured unknown. Template:Interlanguage link multi killed 262 people from 12 nations
1962 Algeria Devil's Cigarette Lighter fire in a gas field, lasted almost 6 months before doused with explosives
1962 to present Pennsylvania Centralia Mine Fire, rendering the town uninhabitable
1967 to present Kukruse, Estonia A continuously burning gangue mound at the Kukruse mine
1971 to present Derweze, Ahal Province, Turkmenistan Darvaza gas crater fire in a natural gas field
morning of 2 May 1972 Kellogg, Idaho 91 killed, injured unknown. Fire broke out in the Sunshine Mine, on the morning of 2 May; 91 workers died from smoke inhalation or carbon monoxide poisoning
16 September 1986 Kinross, Transvaal, South Africa 177 killed, 235 injured. Kinross mining disaster fire in a gold mine owned by the General Mining Union Corporation [5]
6 July 1988 North Sea 167 killed, injured unknown. Piper Alpha oil platform disaster
1991 State of Kuwait Kuwaiti oil fires following the Gulf War
2010 Gulf of Mexico 11 killed, 17 injured. Explosion and fire on the Deepwater Horizon Mobile offshore drilling unit
New Zealand 29 killed, injured unknown. Pike River Mine disaster in New Zealand; a series of three explosions in the mine was followed by a fourth which set fire to the coal. 29 miners and contractors perished.
4 December 2015 Caspian Sea 12 killed, 18 missing, injured unknown. Gunashli Platform No.10 fire broke out on the offshore oil and gas platform in the Azerbaijani section of the Caspian Sea; 12 confirmed deaths, 18 missing.


Forest and countryside fires

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Date Location Dead/injured Details References
8 October 1871 Michigan More than 200 killed, injured unknown. A series of fires across the state, the most severe of which was the Port Huron Fire. The combined Michigan fires killed over 200 people and burned about 1.2 million acres. Occurred on the same day as the Great Chicago Fire and the Peshtigo fire. Great Michigan Fire
8 October 1871 Wisconsin 1,500–2,500 killed, injured unknown. Deadliest wildfire in world history. Death toll can only be estimated because entire towns with all town records were incinerated. Burned over 1.2 million acres. Occurred on the same day as the Great Chicago Fire and the Great Michigan Fire. Peshtigo Fire
1910 North Idaho and Western Montana 87 killed, injured unknown. The largest Fire in U.S. history. It burned an area the size of Connecticut (Script error: No such module "convert".), killing 87 people, including 78 firefighters. Great Fire of 1910[6]
1911 Ontario 73–200 killed, injured unknown. Great Porcupine Fire
29 July 1916 223 killed, injured unknown. Six towns destroyed, two more damaged. Matheson Fire
12 October 1918 Minnesota 453 killed, injured unknown. 1918 Cloquet Fire
1921 35 killed, injured unknown. 1921 Mari wildfires
1922 Northern Ontario Several towns destroyed including 90% of the city of Haileybury, Ontario. Great Fire of 1922
1933 Los Angeles, California 29 killed, injured unknown. Griffith Park fire in Los Angeles, California, killed 29 firefighters on 3 October. 1933 Griffith Park fire
1933 Tillamook Burn, Oregon
1936 Kursha-2, Russia 1200 killed.
1936 Bandon, Oregon 11 killed. Bandon's entire commercial district was destroyed, total loss stated at the time was $3 million, with 11 fatalities.
1937 Shoshone National Forest, Wyoming 15 killed. Killed 15 firefighters on 21 August. Blackwater Fire of 1937
1939 Victoria,Australia 71 killed. Black Friday bushfires
1949 Landes Forest, France 82 killed. Script error: No such module "convert". lost. 1949 Landes forest fire
1949 Helena National Forest, Montana, U.S. 13 killed. Mann Gulch Fire
1953 Mendocino National Forest near Willows, California 15 killed. Set by an arsonist named Stanford Pattan. Killed 15 firefighters on 9 July. Rattlesnake Fire
1963 Paraná 110 killed. 20,000 square kilometres destroyed, killing at least 110, with 5,000 houses burned in September.
1966 Serra de Sintra, outside of Lisbon, Portugal 26 killed. Script error: No such module "convert". destroyed, killing 26.
1967 Tasmania, Australia 62 killed, more than 900 injured. 1967 Tasmanian fires
1971 Kure, western Honshū, Japan 18 killed. 18 firefighters killed on 27 April.
1975 Northern Germany 7 killed. 80 square kilometres destroyed, 7 fatalities including 5 firefighters killed on 10 August. Fire on the Lüneburg Heath
1983 South Australia and Victoria 75 killed, more than 2600 injured. Killed 75 people and injured more than 2600 others. Ash Wednesday bushfires
1987 People's Republic of China Burned for a month. 1987 Black Dragon fire
1988 Yellowstone National Park, U.S. Largest, most expensive wildfire in the history of the National Park Service, at the world's first national park. Yellowstone fires of 1988
1991 Oakland, California, U.S. 25 killed, 150 injured. Killed 25 people and injured 150 others. Oakland firestorm of 1991
1994 Isabela Island 12 km² lost in April.
1994 Storm King Mountain near Glenwood Springs, Colorado 14 killed. Killed fourteen firefighters on 6 July. South Canyon Fire
2002 Oregon The largest Wildfire in the recorded history of Oregon. Biscuit Fire
2003 Australian Capital Territory 4 killed, 435 injured. Canberra bushfires
2003 Southern California Destroyed over 550 homes and many acres of land. Cedar Fire
2003 British Columbia 2003 Okanagan Mountain Park fire
2005 South Australia 9 killed, at least 113 injured. 9 killed, at least 113 injured and 79 houses destroyed. Eyre Peninsula bushfire
2006 Pilliga forest Burned out 740 km² on just its first day.
2007 California, U.S. October 2007 California wildfires
2008 California, U.S. Second costliest in US history to extinguish. Summer 2008 California wildfires
2009 Victoria, Australia 180 killed, roughly 500 injured. In February, at the end of the early 2009 southeastern Australia heat wave, bushfires swept through the Australian state of Victoria killing 180 people, injuring around 500, destroying at least 2029 homes. Black Saturday bushfires
2010 Russia 54 killed. 2000 buildings, 8000 km² destroyed, 54 killed.[7] 2010 Russian wildfires
2010 Israel 44 killed. 2010 Mount Carmel forest fire
2011 Parts of Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland Destroyed many parks and forests.
2011 Texas, U.S. 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. Summer fire outbreak across Texas
2011 Bastrop, Texas 2 killed. Two wildfires burn in Bastrop, Texas; 2 people killed, 34,000 acres burned, over 1000 houses and other structures destroyed.
2011 Swinley Forest, UK 12 fire services attended from various counties to extinguish this forest fire.[8][9]
2015 Mount Lofty Ranges, South Australia Destroyed 12,500 hectares (31,000 acres) of native forest, farmland, vineyards and 27 houses, with no human fatalities. Sampson Flat bushfires
2016 Portugal 2016 Portugal Wildfires
2017 Ireland Between 30 and 40 gorse fires raged across Ireland between late April and early May. Cloosh Valley saw the worst of these fires with Script error: No such module "convert". of forest damaged.[10]
2017 Portugal At least 66 killed, at least 204 injured. June 2017 Portugal Wildfires
2017 Oregon's Deschutes National Forest, Columbia River Gorge National Scenic Area, and the Willamette National Forest Fires consumed hundreds of thousands of acres of Oregon's Deschutes National Forest, Columbia River Gorge National Scenic Area, and the Willamette National Forest during August and September, causing evacuations and road closures. Fires included the Chetco Bar Fire and the Eagle Creek Fire, which also spread into Skamania County, Washington, United States.[11][12][13]
2018 California, U.S. 85 killed. Began November 8, 2018; caused 85 deaths and destroyed 18,804 structures.[14][15] Camp Fire
2018 California, U.S. 3 killed. Broke out on the same day as the Camp Fire. Resulted in three deaths and the destruction of 1,643 structures,[16] among them, the homes of notable celebrities. Woolsey Fire
2019 Nelson and Tasman District, New Zealand Two wildfires, 20 kilometres apart in Nelson and Tasman District, New Zealand, started on 5 February 2019. The Pigeon Valley fire was described as New Zealand's largest since 1955 and New Zealand's largest aerial firefight on record with 22 helicopters involved.[17] 2019 Nelson fires
2019 Australia Starting on 29 October 2019, this rapidly became the largest single-ignition fire from lightning strike Australia has ever seen, reaching over Script error: No such module "convert". with a perimeter of Script error: No such module "convert"..[18] Gospers Mountain bushfire
2020 Cagua, Aragua state, Venezuela 11 killed. On 23 January 2020, a fire was started in the Agrícola del Lago reed bed in Cagua, Aragua state, Venezuela. Eleven people were confirmed to have died as a result of the fire, all but two being minors.[19][20][21][22] Cagua fire
2025 Los Angeles area, California, U.S. 6 killed. Began January 7, 2025; destroyed 5,000 structures and caused 6 deaths.[23][24] Eaton Fire
2025 Los Angeles area, California, U.S. 5 killed. Began January 7, 2025; caused 5 deaths and more than 12,000 structures damaged or destroyed, more than 150,000 people evacuated.[25][24][26] Palisades Fire

See also

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Further reading

  • Script error: No such module "citation/CS1". Irish Examiner article on 1875 fire

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