megafire

plural megafires

1. A very large wildfire, typically one covering more than 100,000 acres.

   There remains much that can be done to limit the damage to come, to brace against the coming megafires and superstorms and save lives and hold onto a thriving civilization.

   2020 September 22, John Branch, Brad Plumer, “Climate Disruption Is Now Locked In”, in New York Times

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   This increase means that almost every aspect of the Earth’s climate system is now influenced by humanity, and the consequences – droughts, heatwaves, megafires, melting glaciers and rising oceans – are now well understood.

   2015 November 20, Tim Flannery, “Climate crisis: seaweed, coffee and cement could save the planet”, in The Guardian

   Across the Western United States, a summer of record-breaking drought, heat waves and megafires exacerbated by climate change is forcing millions of people to confront an inescapable string of disasters that challenge the future of growth.

   2021 July 20, Jack Healy, Sophie Kasakove, “A Drought So Dire That a Utah Town Pulled the Plug on Growth”, in The New York Times, →ISSN