| 2018 wildfire season | |
|---|---|
 Wildfire prediction for the United States | |
| Date(s) | January–December 2018 |
| Season | |
← 2017
2019 → | |
The 2018 wildfire season involves wildfires on multiple continents. An extremely rare event occurred when wildfires broke out north of the Arctic Circle in Scandinavia, with one burning on the Russia–Finland border near the Barents Sea on July 20.[1] By the end of the calendar year, the fires in British Columbia had burned more area than in any prior recorded year;[2] and California experienced the single largest (by area) fire on record, and a fire destroyed more structures than in any other in modern history.[3][4] Similarly, the UK saw the most wildfires ever recorded in a single year, at 76,[5] while Greece saw the deadliest wildfires in its history, with 102 casualties.
Below is a partial list of articles on wildfires from around the world in the year 2018.
- ^ Scarcely Seen Scandinavian Fires, NASA Earth Observatory, July 17, 2018
- ^ "Current Statistics". bcfireinfo.for.gov.bc.ca. Retrieved November 11, 2018.
- ^ Alexander, Kurtis; Ravani, Sarah; Allday, Erin (November 10, 2018). "Camp Fire is most destructive wildfire in California history: 9 dead, 6,713 structures incinerated". San Francisco Chronicle. Retrieved November 10, 2018.
- ^ Thomas Fuller; Jennifer Medina; Jose A. Del Real (November 9, 2018), ""The Whole World Was on Fire": Infernos Choke California, Piling On the Grief", The New York Times
- ^ Vaughan, Adam (April 23, 2018). "The UK has already had more wildfires in 2019 than any year on record". NewScientist. Retrieved March 18, 2020.