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.
2011 – 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 in Berkshire.[8][9]
2017 – Between 30 and 40 gorse fires raged across the country [Ireland] between late April and early May. Cloosh Valley saw the worst of these fires with 1,500 hectares (5.8 sq mi) of forest damaged.[10]
2018 – Camp Fire in California. Began November 8, 2018; caused 85 deaths and destroyed 18,804 structures.[14][15]
2018 – Woolsey Fire in California, which 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.
2019 – 2019 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.[17]
2019 – Gospers Mountain bushfire – Starting on October 29, 2019, this rapidly became the largest single-ignition fire from lightning strike Australia has ever seen, reaching over 512,000 hectares (1,980 sq mi) with a perimeter of 1,503 kilometres (934 mi), the Gospers Mountain Fire has officially been set to contained on January 13, 2020, at 12:00.[18]
2020 – Cagua 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.[19][20][21][22]
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^Moleski, Vincent (February 17, 2019). "Camp Fire death count drops to 85 while missing list drops to 2 following arrest". Sacramento Bee. Retrieved June 13, 2019.
^"Woolsey Fire Incident Update". Los Angeles County Fire Department. Archived from the original on November 12, 2018. Retrieved November 22, 2018.
^"Nelson bush fire: Helicopter crashes fighting fires in Tasman district". Stuff.co.nz. 17 February 2019. Retrieved 17 February 2019.
^"Live: NSW Now: Gospers Mountain fire contained after burning through 512,000 hectares". www.abc.net.au. 2020-01-12. Retrieved 2020-06-09.
^"La Fiscalía venezolana eleva a los 11 muertos en un incendio, 9 de ellos menores". EFE (in Spanish). 24 January 2020.
^"Al menos 10 muertos, 7 de ellos menores de edad, en un incendio en Venezuela". La Voz de Galicia (in Spanish). 24 January 2020.
^"Al menos 10 muertos, 7 de ellos niños, en un incendio en Venezuela". 20 Minutos (in Spanish). 24 January 2020.
^"Incendio en Venezuela deja 11 personas muertas, incluidos 9 niños" (in Spanish). France 24. 24 January 2020.
Further reading
"Deadly drink fanned the flames of 1875". Irish Examiner. 2014-11-04. Retrieved 2020-06-09. Irish Examiner article on 1875 fire
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