Firestorm
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A firestorm is a conflagration which attains such intensity that it creates and sustains its own wind system. It is most commonly a natural phenomenon, created during some of the largest bushfires and wildfires.
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Potential firestorms
Portions of the following fires are often described as firestorms, but that has not been corroborated by any reliable references:
- Great Fire of Rome (64 AD)
- Great Fire of London (1666)
- Great Chicago Fire (1871)
- San Francisco earthquake (1906)
- Great Kantō earthquake (1923)
- Tillamook Burn (1933–1951)
- Second Great Fire of London (1940)
- Ash Wednesday bushfires (1983)
- Yellowstone fires (1988)
- Canberra bushfires (2003)
- Okanagan Mountain Park Fire (2003)
- Black Saturday bushfires (2009)
- Fort McMurray wildfire (2016)
- Predrógâo Grande wildfire (2017)
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