Most devastating wildfires in world's history

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List of wildfires, which burned millions of acres of forest.

Rated 4 points - posted 14 years ago by orangeporridge in category World.

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Peshtigo Fire

The scariest part of this fire is the fact that it took life of more than 1,500 people.

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Miramichi Fire

Probably the largest wildfire in world's history, it destroyed over 3,000,000 acres of forest.

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Cloquet Fire

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Great Fire of 1910

It burned down around 3,000,000 acres of forest and killed 86 people

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Black Saturday bushfires

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Summer 2004 Alaskan Wildfires

Dry summer in Alaska caused ignition of 710 fires. 426 of these fires were caused by humans.

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2010 Russian wildfires

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Summer 2008 California Wildfires

During that summer, over 2,000 fires were started by dry-lightning storms, which burned down over 1,56 million acres of woods.

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Murphy Complex Fire

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Adirondack Fire

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October 2007 California Wildfires

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