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Rank Name Country Area burned (ha) Deaths Ref.
1 2023–2024 Australian bushfire season List of largest fires of the 21st century Australia 61,000,000 10 [1]
2 2002–2003 Australian bushfire season List of largest fires of the 21st century Australia 54,000,000 7 [2]
3 2019–2020 Australian bushfire season List of largest fires of the 21st century Australia 24,300,000–39,800,000 33 [3][4][5]
4 2023 Canadian wildfires List of largest fires of the 21st century Canada 18,496,051 9 [6]
5 2021 Russia wildfires List of largest fires of the 21st century Russia 7,800,000–16,100,000 0 [7]
6 2019 Siberia wildfires List of largest fires of the 21st century Russia 7,800,000 0 [8]
7 2014 Northwest Territories fires List of largest fires of the 21st century Canada 3,000,000 0 [9]
8 2020 California wildfires List of largest fires of the 21st century United States 1,779,730 33 [10]
9 2010 Bolivia forest fires List of largest fires of the 21st century Bolivia 1,500,000 0 [11]
10 2006–2007 Australian bushfire season List of largest fires of the 21st century Australia 1,300,000 5 [12]
11 2017 British Columbia wildfires List of largest fires of the 21st century Canada 1,148,000 0 [13]
12 2019 Amazon rainforest wildfires List of largest fires of the 21st century Brazil
List of largest fires of the 21st century Bolivia
List of largest fires of the 21st century Colombia
List of largest fires of the 21st century Paraguay
List of largest fires of the 21st century Peru 		906,495–930,776 2 [14]
13 2017 Chile wildfires List of largest fires of the 21st century Chile 500,000 11 [15]
14 2009 Black Saturday bushfires List of largest fires of the 21st century Australia 401,073 173 [16]
15 2015 Russian wildfires List of largest fires of the 21st century Russia 107,000 33 [17]
  1. ^ Evershed, Nick; Ball, Andy; Morton, Adam (November 17, 2023). "How big are the fires burning in Australia's north? Interactive map shows they've burned an area larger than Spain". The Guardian. Retrieved February 18, 2024.
  2. ^ Ellis, Stuart; Kanowski, Peter; Whelan, R. J. (2004-03-31). "National Inquiry on Bushfire Mitigation and Management, Council of Australian Governments" (PDF). Commonwealth of Australia. p. xii. Retrieved 2023-08-28.
  3. ^ "Australia fires: A visual guide to the bushfire crisis". BBC. 6 January 2020.
  4. ^ "It's official: every bushfire in NSW has either been extinguished or is under control". Timeout. 14 February 2020.
  5. ^ "2019–20 Australian bushfires—frequently asked questions (updates)". www.aph.gov.au. Australian Parliament House. Retrieved 5 September 2023. the Commonwealth Royal Commission into National Natural Disaster Arrangements 'struggled to obtain consistent burnt area data on a national scale', and found estimates of area burnt that ranged from 24.3 to 33.8 million hectares (…) The Commonwealth Department of Agriculture, Water and the Environment subsequently developed the National Indicative Aggregated Fire Extent Datasets in 2020, which estimated 39.8 million hectares were burnt in the 2019–20 fires.
  6. ^ "Fire Statistics". CIFFC.net. Canadian Interagency Forest Fire Centre (CIFFC). October 2023. Archived from the original on 25 October 2023. Retrieved 25 October 2023.
  7. ^ Dixon, Robyn (August 11, 2021). "Siberia's wildfires are bigger than all the world's other blazes combined". The Washington Post. Retrieved February 10, 2024. forest fires that have burned more than 62,300 square miles since the beginning of the year, according to Greenpeace (…) The ministry estimates that the area burned in forest fires this year at slightly more than 30,000 square miles
  8. ^ "Russian military called in to fight Siberian forest fires". Washington Post. 31 July 2019. Archived from the original on 31 July 2019. Retrieved 5 August 2019.
  9. ^ "A new 2014 for wildfires". Cabin Radio. 5 March 2019.
  10. ^ "National Large Incident Year-to-date Report" (PDF). Geographic Area Coordination Centers. 14 September 2020.
  11. ^ "Bolivia declares emergency over forest fires". BBC. 20 August 2010.
  12. ^ Smith, Ross (July 2007). "Key Issues Identified From Operational Reviews of Major Fires in Victoria 2006/07" (PDF). depi.vic.gov.au. Department of Sustainability and Environment & Country Fire Authority. Retrieved 11 June 2015.
  13. ^ "B.C. farmers and ranchers devastated by wildfires to get $20M in financial aid". CBC. 6 September 2017.
  14. ^ "Brazil's Bolsonaro says he will accept aid to fight Amazon fires". CBS News. August 27, 2019. Retrieved August 30, 2019.
  15. ^ Pardo, Daniel (January 29, 2017). ""Es como el infierno de Dante": el drama de los voraces incendios que Chile no logra sofocar". BBC Mundo (in Spanish). Retrieved February 18, 2024.
  16. ^ "The Australian "Black Saturday" Bushfires of 2009". Saving Earth | Encyclopedia Britannica. 2009-11-23. Retrieved 2021-02-27.
  17. ^ "Fire rages on as death toll from two blazes reaches 33". The Siberian Times. 16 April 2015.

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