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Bushfires in Australia
Bushfires in Australia, also called Australian wildfires, are unplanned vegetation fires driven by hot, dry winds and flammable eucalypts; the deadly Black Summer of 2019–20 burned about 104,000 km².
Camp Fire (2018)
The Camp Fire was a November 2018 wildfire in Butte County, California, and the deadliest and most destructive in state history, killing 85 people and destroying most of Paradise.
Cloudburst
A cloudburst is a sudden, torrential fall of rain over a small area, almost always from a convective shower or thunderstorm, commonly defined as 100 mm of rain per hour or more.
Cold front
A cold front is the boundary at the leading edge of an advancing cold air mass, displacing warmer air and often bringing showers, thunderstorms, and a sharp temperature drop.
Columbus Day Storm of 1962
The Columbus Day Storm of 1962, also known as Typhoon Freda or the Big Blow, was an extratropical windstorm that struck the Pacific Northwest on October 12, 1962.
Cyclone Gudrun
Cyclone Gudrun, also named Erwin, was an extratropical cyclone that struck Denmark and southern Sweden in January 2005, felling 75 million cubic meters of forest.
Cyclone Ianos
Cyclone Ianos (Ιανός) was an intense Mediterranean tropical-like cyclone, or medicane, that struck Greece on 18 September 2020 with hurricane-force winds, record rainfall, and floods that killed four people.
Derecho
A derecho is a widespread, long-lived windstorm produced by a band of rapidly moving thunderstorms, causing straight-line wind damage along paths hundreds of miles long.
Dust storm
A dust storm, or sandstorm, is a weather event where strong winds lift sand and dust from dry soil, often forming a miles-long wall of dust.
European windstorm
A European windstorm is an intense extratropical cyclone that brings damaging surface winds to Europe, forming over the North Atlantic and ranking among the continent's costliest natural hazards.
Explosive cyclogenesis
Explosive cyclogenesis, sometimes called bombogenesis, is the rapid deepening of an extratropical cyclone; the resulting storm is colloquially called a bomb cyclone, with hurricane-force winds.
Extratropical cyclone
An extratropical cyclone, also called a mid-latitude or frontal cyclone, is a low-pressure storm system driven by horizontal temperature contrasts, and it brings most fall-to-spring weather in temperate zones.
Extratropical transition
Extratropical transition (ET) is the gradual process by which a tropical cyclone at higher latitudes becomes an extratropical cyclone, its energy shifting from latent heat to temperature contrasts, often while retaining strong winds.
Fire whirl
A fire whirl, also called a fire devil or firenado, is a spinning vortex of hot air and flame rising from a fire, with large whirls having tornado-like intensity.
Firestorm
A firestorm is a fire so intense that it generates its own wind system, sustaining and spreading the flames, sometimes producing its own pyrocumulonimbus cloud, lightning, and tornadoes.
Great storm of 1703
The Great storm of 1703 was a violently destructive cyclone that struck southern England and northern France in late November 1703, killing an estimated 8,000 to 15,000 people.
Great storm of 1987
The Great Storm of 1987 was an extratropical cyclone that struck southern Britain and northern France on 15–16 October 1987, felling about 15 million trees.
Haboob
A haboob (Arabic habūb) is a wall of dust or sand pushed by thunderstorm outflow winds that can cut visibility to zero; the term began in Sudan and now covers similar storms worldwide, especially in Arizona.
Hanukkah Eve windstorm of 2006
The Hanukkah Eve windstorm of 2006 was a powerful windstorm that struck western Oregon, Washington, and British Columbia in December 2006, leaving 1.5 million customers without power.
Hawk Fire
The Hawk Fire was a wind-driven wildfire that burned on Peavine Peak northwest of Reno, Nevada, in August 2026, destroying 47 homes and prompting evacuations of roughly 90,000 people.
January 2018 North American blizzard
The January 2018 North American blizzard, or Winter Storm Grayson, was a bomb cyclone that brought blizzard conditions and record coastal flooding to the East Coast.
January 2025 Southern California wildfires
The January 2025 Southern California wildfires were wind-driven fires begun January 7 during strong Santa Ana winds; the Palisades and Eaton Fires destroyed over 16,000 structures.
June 2012 North American derecho
The June 2012 North American derecho was a severe thunderstorm complex that on June 29, 2012 swept 1,000 km from the Midwest to the Mid-Atlantic, killing 13.
List of wildfires
The list of wildfires, also called the list of bushfires, catalogs notable wildfires chiefly in North America and Europe, including the 1988 Yellowstone fires and the 2025 Southern California fires.
Mediterranean tropical-like cyclone
A Mediterranean tropical-like cyclone, commonly called a medicane, is a small, hurricane-like storm that forms over the Mediterranean Sea one to a few times per year.
November 2014 Bering Sea cyclone
The November 2014 Bering Sea cyclone was an extratropical storm from the remnants of Typhoon Nuri that deepened to 924 millibars, among the strongest North Pacific cyclones recorded.
October 2021 Northeast Pacific bomb cyclone
The October 2021 Northeast Pacific bomb cyclone was an explosively deepening extratropical cyclone that struck the Pacific Northwest on October 24, 2021, reaching a record-low pressure of 942.5 mb.
Pacific Northwest windstorm
A Pacific Northwest windstorm is a strong midlatitude cyclone that hits Oregon, Washington, and southern British Columbia with damaging winds, most often between November and February.
Palisades Fire
The Palisades Fire, a wind-driven wildfire, ignited on January 7, 2025 in Pacific Palisades, Los Angeles, burning 23,448 acres, destroying 6,845 structures, and killing 12 civilians.
Peshtigo fire
The Peshtigo fire, also called the Great Peshtigo Fire, was an 1871 firestorm in northeastern Wisconsin and Michigan that killed over 1,150 people, the deadliest wildfire in United States history.