megafires

Noun

megafire (plural megafires)

1. A very large wildfire, typically one covering more than 100,000 acres.
   • This increase means that almost every aspect of the Earth’s climate system is now influenced by humanity, and the consequences – droughts, heatwaves, megafires, melting glaciers and rising oceans – are now well understood.2015 November 20, Tim Flannery, “Climate crisis: seaweed, coffee and cement could save the planet”, in The Guardian