List of natural disasters by death toll
Deadliest wildfires / bushfires

List of natural disasters by death toll

Section Title: Deadliest wildfires / bushfires
Table Section Text: None

Rank	Death toll	Event	Location	Date

1.	1,200–2,500	Peshtigo Fire	Wisconsin, United States	October 8, 1871

2.	1,200	Kursha-2 Fire	Soviet Union	August 3, 1936

3.	453	Cloquet Fire	Minnesota, United States	October 12, 1918

4.	418+	Great Hinckley Fire	Minnesota, United States	September 1, 1894

5.	282	Thumb Fire	Michigan, United States	September 5, 1881

6.	240	1997 Indonesian forest fires	Sumatra and Kalimantan, Indonesia	September 1997

7.	223	Matheson Fire	Ontario, Canada	July 29, 1916

8.	191	Black Dragon Fire	China and Soviet Union	May 1, 1987

9.	180	Black Saturday bushfires	Australia	February 7, 2009

10.	160–300	Miramichi Fire	Canada	October 7, 1825

11.	102	2018 Attica wildfires	Greece	July 23, 2018

12.	87	Great Fire of 1910	Montana and Idaho, United States	August 20, 1910

13.	85	Camp Fire	California, United States	November 8, 2018

14.	84	2007 Greek forest fires	Greece	June 28, 2007

15.	82	1949 Landes forest fire	France	August 19, 1949

16.	75	Ash Wednesday bushfires	Australia	February 16, 1983

17.	73–200	Great Porcupine Fire	Canada	July 11, 1911

18.	71	Black Friday bushfires	Australia	January 13, 1939

19.	66	2017 Portugal wildfires	Portugal	June 17, 2017

20.	65+	Yacolt Burn	Washington and Oregon, United States	September 8, 1902

21.	62	1967 Tasmanian fires	Australia	February 7, 1967

22.	60	1926 Victorian bushfires	Australia	January 26, 1926

23.	57	1991 Indonesian forest fires	Indonesia	August 1991

24.	56	1992 Nepal wildfires	Nepal	March 1992

25.	54	2010 Russian wildfires	Russia	July 29, 2010

Sentence(s)

The 2018 Attica wildfires were the second-deadliest wildfire event in the 21st century, after the 2009 Black Saturday bushfires in Australia that killed 180.

final_sentence: The 2018 Attica wildfires were the second-deadliest wildfire event in the 21st century, after the 2009 Black Saturday bushfires in Australia that killed 180.