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This article is a list of notable fires.

Town and city firesEdit

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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 firesEdit

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Transportation firesEdit

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Mining (including oil and natural gas drilling) firesEdit

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1884 to present New Straitsville, Ohio Coal mine fire ignited by striking miners citation CitationClass=web

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31 May 1892 Příbram, now in the Czech Republic, 319/? Fire in Marine iron mine
7 September 1895 Osceola Township, Houghton County, Michigan 30/? Osceola copper mine caught fire <ref>Template:Cite report</ref>
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1915 to present Luzerne County, Pennsylvania Laurel Run mine fire ignited when a carbide lamp set fire to a timber support
1956 Belgium 262/? 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/? 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 177/235 Kinross mining disaster fire in a gold mine owned by the General Mining Union Corporation <ref>Template:Cite news</ref>
6 July 1988 North Sea 167/? Piper Alpha oil platform disaster
1991 State of Kuwait Kuwaiti oil fires following the Gulf War
2010 Gulf of Mexico Explosion and fire on the Deepwater Horizon mobile offshore drilling unit
New Zealand 29/? 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+18 missing /? 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 firesEdit

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8 October 1871 Michigan >200/? 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/? 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 Fires. Peshtigo Fire
1910 North Idaho and Western Montana 87/? The largest Fire in U.S. history burned an area the size of Connecticut (Template:Convert), killing 87 people, including 78 firefighters Great Fire of 1910<ref>Template:Cite news</ref>
1911 Ontario 73–200/? Great Porcupine Fire
29 July 1916 223/? Six towns destroyed, two more damaged Matheson Fire
12 October 1918 Minnesota 453/? 1918 Cloquet Fire
1921 35/? 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/? Griffith Park fire in Los Angeles, California, killed 29 firefighters on 3 October. 1933 Griffith Park fire
1933 Tillamook Burn, Oregon

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  • 2010Template:Snd2010 Mount Carmel forest fire in Israel led to 44 fatalities.
  • 2011Template:SndFires across parts of Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland, during the Easter holidays, destroying many parks and forests.
  • 2011Template:SndSummer 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.
  • 2011Template:SndTwo wildfires burn in Bastrop, Texas; 2 people killed, 34,000 acres burned, over 1000 houses and other structures destroyed
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  • 2019Template:Snd2019 Nelson fires – Two wildfires, 20 kilometres apart in Nelson and Tasman District, New Zealand, started on 5 February 2019. The Pigeon Valley fire was described as the country's largest since 1955 and New Zealand's largest aerial firefight on record with 22 helicopters involved.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref>
  • 2019Template:SndGospers Mountain bushfire – Starting on 29 October 2019, this rapidly became the largest single-ignition fire from lightning strike Australia has ever seen, reaching over Template:Convert with a perimeter of Template:Convert, the Gospers Mountain Fire has officially been set to contained on 13 January 2020, at 12:00.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation

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  • 2020Template:SndCagua fire – 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.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation

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  • 2025Template:SndPalisades Fire in Los Angeles area, CaliforniaTemplate:SndBegan January 7, 2025; caused 5 deaths and more than 12,000 structures damaged or destroyed, more than 150,000 people evacuated.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation

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See alsoEdit

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ReferencesEdit

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Further readingEdit

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