The 2019 wildfire season involves

wildfire A wildfire, forest fire, bushfire, wildland fire or rural fire is an unplanned, uncontrolled and unpredictable fire in an area of Combustibility and flammability, combustible vegetation. Depending on the type of vegetation present, a wildfire ...

s on multiple continents.

List of wildfires

Events during the season include the following: ;Africa *

2019 Canary Islands wildfires During August 2019, a number of forest fires broke out in the Canary Islands of Gran Canaria, Tenerife and Lanzarote. The fires on the island of Gran Canaria were the most severe, resulting in the loss of large areas of the island's forests and le ...

, Spain ;Asia * 2019 Bandipur forest fires, India * Goseong Fire of 2019, South Korea *

2019 Siberia wildfires The 2019 Siberian wildfires began in July 2019 in poorly accessible areas of northern Krasnoyarsk Krai, Sakha Republic and Zabaykalsky Krai, all in Siberia, Russia. By the end of the month the size of the fires reached . As of 30 July, there ...

, Russia * 2019 Vietnam forest fires *A series of wildfires contributed to the

Southeast Asian haze The Southeast Asian haze is a fire-related recurrent transboundary air pollution issue. Haze events, where air quality reaches hazardous levels due to high concentrations of airborne particulate matter from burning biomass, have caused adver ...

in 2019. ;Europe * 2019 United Kingdom wildfires ;North America *

Deshka Landing Fire Deshka Landing Fire was a wildfire that burned five miles southwest of Willow in Matanuska-Susitna Borough, Alaska in the United States. The fire started on August 17, 2019 and burned . Fire August The Deshka Landing Fire was reported on August ...

Alaska Alaska ( ; russian: Аляска, Alyaska; ale, Alax̂sxax̂; ; ems, Alas'kaaq; Yup'ik: ''Alaskaq''; tli, Anáaski) is a state located in the Western United States on the northwest extremity of North America. A semi-exclave of the U.S., ...

, United States *

2019 Alberta wildfires The 2019 Alberta wildfires have been described by NASA as part of an extreme fire season in the province. In 2019 there were a total of , which is over 3.5 times more land area burned than in the five-year average burned. The five year average i ...

, Canada *

2019 California wildfires The 2019 California wildfire season was a series of wildfires that burned across the U.S. state of California as part of the 2019 wildfire season. By the end of the year, according to Cal Fire and the US Forest Service, 7,860 fires were recorded ...

, United States *

2019 Washington wildfires The 2019 Washington wildfire season officially began in March 2019. Government preparation In January 2019, the Washington Commissioner of Public Lands Hilary Franz proposed a $55 million, 10-year plan to combat fires that included greatly expand ...

, United States *July-August wildfire between Sisimiut and Kangerlussuaq at

Kangerluarsuk Tulleq Kangerluarsuk Tulleq (old spelling: ''Kangerdluarssuk Tugdleq'') is a long fjord in the Qeqqata municipality in western Greenland. The fjord is of roughly east–west orientation, emptying into Davis Strait in the west. Geography The fjord m ...

, Greenland ;Oceania *

2018–19 Australian bushfire season The bushfires were predicted to be "fairly bleak" in parts of Australia, particularly in the east, by the Bushfire and Natural Hazards Cooperative Research Centre (CRC) chief executive, Richard Thornton, in September 2018. Large bushfires had al ...

2019 Nelson fires The Pigeon Valley Fire was a wildfire in the Tasman District and briefly the largest wildfire in New Zealand history before being surpassed by the Lake Ōhau Fire a year later. The fire began on the afternoon of the 5th of February following ...

, New Zealand *

2019–20 Australian bushfire season The 201920 Australian bushfire season (Black Summer), was a period of bushfires in many parts of Australia, which, due to its unusual intensity, size, duration, and uncontrollable dimension, is considered a megafire. The Australian National ...

;South America *

2019 Amazon wildfires The 2019 Amazon rainforest wildfires season saw a year-to-year surge in fires occurring in the Amazon rainforest and Amazon biome within Brazil, Bolivia, Paraguay, and Peru during that year's Amazonian tropical dry season. Fires normally occur ...

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