Definition & Meaning | English word WILDFIRES

Definitions of WILDFIRES

1. plural of wildfire.

Examples of Using WILDFIRES in a Sentence

• Clockwise, from top left: the International Criminal Court in the Hague issues arrest warrants for Russian President Vladimir Putin and Russian Presidential Commissioner for Children's Rights Maria Lvova-Belova due to allegations of war crimes, genocide and the unlawful deportation and transfer of children during the Russo-Ukrainian War; Titan, a submersible operated by OceanGate, implodes during a tourist expedition to view the wreck of the Titanic, killing all five people on board; up to 115 people are killed during wildfires in Hawaii; a 7.
• Some examples of natural hazard events include avalanches, droughts, earthquakes, floods, heat waves, landslides, tropical cyclones, volcanic activity and wildfires.
• Wildfire or bushfire (ignition of wildfires is sometimes by lightning strike, especially in "dry thunderstorms").
• The area's terrain is prone to wildfires (such as the Pioneertown fire in July 2006), resulting from plant growth during the rainy seasons and flash floods.
• Crest was twice devastated by wildfires: first by the Laguna Fire in 1970 then again by the Cedar Fire in 2003.
• The whole of Glen Ellen was severely damaged by the Nuns Fire during the October 2017 Northern California wildfires.
• In November 1933, wildfires raged through the nearby San Gabriel mountains above the communities of La Crescenta, La Cañada and Montrose.
• Chinook winds can sometimes raise temperatures to uncomfortably hot even in the low winter sun, in the process often drying out vegetation to produce wildfires.
• Storms have the potential to harm lives and property via storm surge, heavy rain or snow causing flooding or road impassibility, lightning, wildfires, and vertical and horizontal wind shear.
• In early August 1936 more than two thirds of Pershing was burned by wildfires, forcing fifteen families to flee their homes.
• Idanha was one of the small cities in the Santiam Canyon impacted by a group of wildfires which converged and were later known collectively as the Santiam Fire.
• In July 2009, wildfires destroyed hundreds of hectares of forest and several buildings in West Kelowna; 17,000 residents were evacuated.
• The Black Saturday bushfires, the 2021 British Columbia wildfires, and the Great Peshtigo Fire are possible examples of forest fires with some portion of combustion due to a firestorm, as is the Great Hinckley Fire.
• Smokejumpers are specially trained wildland firefighters who provide an initial attack response on remote wildfires.
• The Ad Council, the Forest Service, and the National Association of State Foresters, in partnership with the creative agency FCB, use the character of Smokey Bear to educate the public about the dangers of unplanned human-caused wildfires.
• Black rain, rain polluted with dark particulates; such as those from wildfires, volcanic eruptions and explosions, and nuclear fallout.
• Once abundant in northern Idaho, Western white pine's population was drastically affected from the late 19th century to the late 20th century by logging, wildfires, white pine blister rust, and a bark beetle epidemic.
• The old-growth population near Coos Bay, Oregon, was wiped out by logging and wildfires in 1867–1868, and again by fire and root disease in 1936.
• The Huron National Forest is prone to frequent seasonal forest fires, due to ecological and geological factors including the domination of the jack pine in sections of the forests, the needles of which are extremely flammable, sandy soil composition as a result of glacial outwash plain geology of sections of the Huron National Forest, and jack pine barrens management practices to create nesting habitat for the Kirtland's warbler resulting in dense, young stands of jack pine that are extremely susceptible to crowning wildfires.
• The Huron National Forest is prone to frequent seasonal forest fires, due to ecological and geological factors including the domination of the jack pine in sections the forests, the needles of which are extremely flammable, sandy soil composition as a result of glacial outwash plain geology of sections of the Huron National Forest, and jack pine barrens management practices to create nesting habitat for the Kirtland's warbler resulting in dense, young stands of jack pine that are extremely susceptible to crowning wildfires.

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