![]() ![]() Beginning on July 13 th, 2021, it burned nearly 1 million acres and caused 1 death over the course of the next 3 months. The Dixie Fire in Butte County, California is the state’s second-largest wildfire. Location: Butte, Plumas, Lassen, Shasta, and Tehama counties, California The low death toll is incredible considering the August Complex fire burned through a whopping 1,032,648 acres. It was the largest wildfire on record in the state’s history, but it was also just one of a long list of fires that plagued California through its long 2020 fire season. ![]() The August Complex fire was a merging of 37 separate fires at once in Mendocino County, California. Location: Mendocino, Humboldt, Trinity, Tehama, Glenn, Lake, and Colusa counties, California People and animals were reported to be fleeing the fire down the Miramichi River, which also shares its name with a city in Canada where the fire did the most damage. 1 Most of the burning took place in New Brunswick, Canada, but the flames also spread down into the state of Maine. That makes it not just one of the most widespread fires, but also one of the deadliest. It blazed through an estimated 3,000,000 million acres and claimed at least 160 lives. The biggest wildfire in recorded US history is the 1825 Miramichi Fire. Here are the top 10 biggest wildfires in US history (unranked). While most of the biggest wildfires only destroyed acreage and structures, at least on paper, there are a few that left a considerable death toll behind – not to mention the incalculable losses of animals and vegetation. There have been countless wildfires in United States’ history, and some of them turned into huge conflagrations that created almost unimaginable levels of destruction. Climate change is making wildfires larger and more destructive, but not all of the largest fires in the US have happened in recent history. history, from the Dixie Fire in California to the Yarnell Fire in Arizona with this list from the Western Fire Chiefs Association (WFCA). Explore the details of the top 10 largest wildfires in U.S. ![]()
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