Thesaurus results for BRUSH FIRE

brush fire

noun

as in forest fire

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Recent Examples of brush fire Another brush fire broke out Sunday in Osceola County, sending a plume of smoke into the sky that could be seen from Orange County. —

Martin E. Comas, The Orlando Sentinel, 19 Feb. 2026 Information on the size of the brush fire and what sparked the original house fire was not immediately available Sunday. —

Lauren Penington, Denver Post, 16 Feb. 2026 Moore also said that the department’s handling of the Lachman Fire — a small New Year’s Day 2025 brush fire that ignited in the Pacific Palisades, eventually leading to the Palisades Fire — wasn't good enough, KNBC added. —

Greg Norman-Diamond, FOXNews.com, 7 Jan. 2026 In October, federal investigators announced the Palisades fire appeared to explode from a small brush fire still smoldering from a week prior. —

Melissa Gomez, Los Angeles Times, 7 Jan. 2026 See All Example Sentences for brush fire

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forest fire

Noun

Tengden said the aircraft is designed for reconnaissance, precision strikes, communications relay, emergency rescue, and forest fire prevention.

— Sujita Sinha, Interesting Engineering, 5 Dec. 2025
The forest fire sequence is a good example.

— Clayton Davis, Variety, 24 Oct. 2025