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List of forest fires


This is a list of wildfires.

During the 1997 Indonesian forest fires 97,000 km2 (37,000 sq mi) of forest were destroyed, more than 2.6 gigatonnes of CO2 was released to the atmosphere. There are other forest fires in Java and Sulawesi on the same year.

Summer 2017 Croatian Wildfires,is a series of wildfires burning in the Istria to the all Way down to Dalmatia. One Wildfire also entered eastern suburbs of Split. The fire also affected islands of Vir,Pag and few other islands

The 1949 Landes Forest Fire burned 50.000 ha of forest land and killed 82 people.

(25,900 ha)

(2,023,000 ha)

Cause: drought, high winds, lightning. Forest Fire area burned is an estimation.

(3,280,000 ha)

(6,000 ha)

Some wildfires occurred in Greenland in August 2017.


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