| Wildfires | Number of fatalities |
|---|---|
| Cloquet fire, Minnesota, U.S. (1918)** | 1,000 |
| Sumatra & Kalimantan forest fires, Indonesia (1997) | 240 |
| Black Dragon Fire - Mohe County, China (1987) | 191 |
| Black Saturday bushfires - Marysville, Kinglake & Taggerty, Australia, (2009) | 180 |
| Cleveland East Ohio gas explosion and fire, U.S. (1944) | 121 |
| Attica wildfire - Neos Voutzas, Greece (2018) | 100 |
| Kabylia fires, Algeria (2021)* | 90 |
| Camp fire - Butty County, California, U.S. (2018) | 88 |
| Landes forest fire, France (1949) | 80 |
| Ash Wednesday bushfire - Victoria, Australia (1983) | 75 |
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Release date
August 2021
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Worldwide
Survey time period
1900 to 2021*
Supplementary notes
* Figures are as of August 18, 2021.
** Estimated, including those missing.
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