This is a list of the largest fires of the 21st century.
Rank | Name | Country | Area burned (ha) | Deaths | Ref. |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
1 | 2023–2024 Australian bushfire season | Australia | 61,000,000 | 10 | [1] |
2 | 2002–2003 Australian bushfire season | Australia | 54,000,000 | 7 | [2] |
3 | 2019–2020 Australian bushfire season | Australia | 24,300,000–39,800,000 | 33 | [3][4][5] |
4 | 2023 Canadian wildfires | Canada | 18,496,051 | 9 | [6] |
5 | 2021 Russia wildfires | Russia | 7,800,000–16,100,000 | 0 | [7] |
6 | 2019 Siberia wildfires | Russia | 7,800,000 | 0 | [8] |
7 | 2014 Northwest Territories fires | Canada | 3,000,000 | 0 | [9] |
8 | 2020 California wildfires | United States | 1,779,730 | 33 | [10] |
9 | 2010 Bolivia forest fires | Bolivia | 1,500,000 | 0 | [11] |
10 | 2006–2007 Australian bushfire season | Australia | 1,300,000 | 5 | [12] |
11 | 2017 British Columbia wildfires | Canada | 1,148,000 | 0 | [13] |
12 | 2019 Amazon rainforest wildfires | Brazil Bolivia Colombia Paraguay Peru |
906,495–930,776 | 2 | [14] |
13 | 2017 Chile wildfires | Chile | 500,000 | 11 | [15] |
14 | 2009 Black Saturday bushfires | Australia | 401,073 | 173 | [16] |
15 | 2015 Russian wildfires | Russia | 107,000 | 33 | [17] |