How to Use wildfire in a Sentence

wildfire

noun

• The recent wildfires were made worse by the strong winds.
• The enormous York wildfire will contribute to the problem.
  — Claire Thornton, USA TODAY, 2 Aug. 2023
• As of late July more than 600 wildfires were out of control in Canada.
  — Seth Borenstein, Fortune, 31 July 2023
• Maui's 150-year-old banyan tree is growing leaves after being charred by the wildfires.
  — Nouran Salahieh, CNN, 5 Oct. 2023
• By summer, smoke from Canadian wildfires choked the once-clean air.
  — Megan Mayhew Bergman, The Atlantic, 20 July 2023
• The hot and dry conditions have also been conducive to wildfires.
  — Zaeem Shaikh, Dallas News, 7 July 2023
• The air was boggy and smelled acrid with everything cast in a sepia-like haze as smoke from the wildfires still raging up in Canada rolled over the city.
  — Evan Romano, Men's Health, 10 July 2023
• Harris talked about the climate crisis and how the land that tribes have called home is being threatened by wildfires, droughts and floods.
  — Allie Feinberg, The Arizona Republic, 6 July 2023
• The robust rain and cool temperatures have reduced the risk of wildfires.
  — Gary Robbins, San Diego Union-Tribune, 1 Oct. 2023
• More than 1 million acres of land have burned up in the fires, including the Smokehouse Creek Fire, the largest wildfire in Texas history.
  — Li Cohen, CBS News, 7 Mar. 2024
• The 10-year average is three wildfires burning 2 acres.
  — Drake Bentley, Journal Sentinel, 26 Feb. 2024
• California’s Joshua trees have suffered a similar fate in the face of the state’s wildfires.
  — Christian Orozco, Los Angeles Times, 25 Mar. 2024
• More than two thirds of U.S. buildings destroyed in wildfires were in the West, and 79.5 percent of buildings burned in them were in shrublands and grasslands, the researchers found.
  — Stephanie Pappas, Scientific American, 9 Nov. 2023
• An expanse of green tundra maybe 100 meters long looked as if it had been burned—only there hadn't been any wildfire.
  — Alec Luhn, Scientific American, 19 Dec. 2023
• The Smokehouse Creek fire is one of five large wildfires currently burning in the Texas Panhandle.
  — Sarah Rumpf-Whitten, Fox News, 29 Feb. 2024
• Much of Kentucky is experiencing low levels of drought as dozens of wildfires rage across the state.
  — Li Cohen, CBS News, 10 Nov. 2023
• And now those Canadian wildfires have my kids worried that fires will happen here next.
  — Sarah Cottrell, Parents, 7 July 2023
• Advertisement This type of dry spell can greatly increase the risk of wildfires.
  — Gary Robbins, San Diego Union-Tribune, 8 Dec. 2023
• Tensions are peaking over the lack of long-term, affordable housing for wildfire evacuees, many of whom work in tourism.
  — CBS News, 29 Dec. 2023
• From a climate standpoint, there couldn’t be a safer place in the country—no hurricanes, no sea-level rise, not much risk of wildfires.
  — Abrahm Lustgarten, The Atlantic, 23 Mar. 2024
• One wildfire scorched more than 100 acres of frailejones in northeastern Colombia’s Berlin Paramo alone.
  — Quentin Septer, Scientific American, 16 Feb. 2024
• Shares of Hawaii’s main utility are plunging Monday morning, in the wake of wildfires that destroyed the coastal Maui town Lahaina.
  — WSJ, 14 Aug. 2023
• Spring is a tumultuous time for weather, and the rapid turn from wildfires on Wednesday to a rainstorm on Saturday shows how fast the season can change.
  — Ian Livingston, Washington Post, 22 Mar. 2024
• The restaurant where Katie Austin was a server burned in the wildfire that devastated Hawaii’s historic town of Lahaina this summer.
  — Audrey McAvoy, Fortune, 29 Dec. 2023
• More vicious wildfires, like the one that obliterated Maui’s city of Lahaina in August.
  — WIRED, 4 Oct. 2023
• This was seen earlier this year, when smoke from wildfires in Canada caused some U.S. cities to experience the worst air quality in the world.
  — Li Cohen, CBS News, 15 Nov. 2023
• The announcement comes on the one-month commemoration of the wildfire, which killed at least 115 people and displaced thousands more.
  — Alicia Victoria Lozano, NBC News, 8 Sep. 2023
• That includes protection of people from such hazards as wildfires, but also threats to the trees themselves.
  — Josh Snyder, Arkansas Online, 3 July 2023
• The fund connects donations directly to people affected by the wildfires in the form of $1,200 monthly checks.
  — Jonah Valdez, Los Angeles Times, 9 Oct. 2023
• Klimek: What is their relationship to wildfires in Plumas County?
  — Chris Klimek, Smithsonian Magazine, 30 Nov. 2023

Last Updated: 3 May 2024