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About 1,160 fires in cities and buildings and about 860 wildfires recorded in Wikidata. Six in ten are from this century.
What you see
- Each fire as a teal disaster mark where it burned; a wildfire Wikidata places in several areas is drawn at their middle.
- A page for each, with its dates, the deaths where Wikidata gives them, and its Wikipedia summary.
- Opened from this page, the map plays 1990 to today.
Where the data comes from
- WikidataItems that are fires or wildfires, with a date and a place; 85% have a Wikipedia article.
Taken from Wikidata when the set is imported; a fire added there since appears after the next import.
Good to know
- The United States holds more than a third of them, most of them wildfires.
- About four in ten are placed only at an area.
- Deaths are given for about a quarter; the map draws every fire at one size.
The first recorded here in each century
- The Great Fire of 113321 May 1133 · Fire
- July 1203 Fire of ConstantinopleJul 1203 · Fire
- Stadtbrand von Schoonhoven (1321)7 Oct 1321 · Fire
- stadsbrand van Rhenen1400 · Fire
- Großer Stadtbrand (Görlitz)1525 · Fire
- Požár Třeboně (1618)13 Apr 1618 · Fire
- Great Oulu Fire of 17051705 · Fire
- Stadsbranden i Göteborg 18021802 · Fire
- 1900 Hull–Ottawa fire1900 · Fire
- 2000 Shantou Guest House fire2000 · Fire
Goes well with
Active firesActive fires worldwide from NASA FIRMS satellite hotspots in the last 24 hours, with US fire perimeters and Canadian incidents, on a live map.Natural disasters since 1960About 9,900 floods, storms, earthquakes, landslides, droughts and heat and cold waves from 1960 to 2018 on one map, from the Geocoded Disasters dataset.Accidents: roads, mines, explosions and crowdsAbout 1,250 road crashes, explosions, mining disasters, industrial accidents and crowd crushes recorded in Wikidata, each where it happened, with the deaths.