Wildfire is a big problem. Wildfire affects people, properties, crops and animals. Many wildfires have devastated enormous areas, damaging human assets.

For more than 400 million years, the Earth and the living species on it have known fire. When any form of fuel and oxygen meets each other and a spark is available, fire is started. So wildfire is very common.

Fire happens, and all the living systems adjust to its presence.

The main problem today is when wildfire burns large areas of natural eco systems, or when wildfires destroy areas with economic activity, creating a negative impact for people, living species, infrastructure and economic assets.

At some extent, fire destroys economic assets, create high risk for crops, woods, animals, and people, causing death at some extent. In conclusion, wildfires create important damage to governments, organizations and people, destroying both public and private assets.

There are hundred examples of wildfires along the last 100 years. Some cases had much media coverage because the fire destruction and consequent losses.

In 2003, wildfires in Canberra, Australia, destroyed over 500 homes, while Cedar Fire destroyed over 550 homes and many acres of land in Southern California, USA.

The State Forest of The Pilliga in New South Wales, Australia, suffered recently from wildfire destruction. In 1997 a major wild fire burned close to 1,435 km² of the forest. An extremely dry winter and spring in 2006 saw a number of large wild fires develop, including the Pilliga 4 Fire in November/December which burned out 740 km² on just its first day.

In 2009, at the end of a severe heatwave, wildfires swept across the Victoria state in Australia, killing 173 people, injuring around 500, destroying more than 2,000 homes and wiping entire towns off the map. They were considered the deadliest wildfires in Australia’s history and one of Australia’s worst natural disasters.

Wildfires in Greece are a huge problem too. In August 2009, thousands of Greeks were battling to save their homes from wildfires raging out of control on the outskirts of Athens. Local authorities declared a state of emergency and mobilized the army in Athens, as the flames encroached on the city's outer suburbs. Officials appealed to residents to evacuate but some Athenians remained in their homes to try to battle the inferno with hoses and buckets. Environmentalists said that the blazes had caused "biblical damage" to an estimated 120,000 hectares of virgin fir and prime forest.

Russian wildfires in 2010 affected 2,000 buildings, destroyed 8,000 km2 and killed 54 people directly. The 2010 Russian wildfires were several hundred wildfires that broke out across Russia, primarily in the west, starting in late July 2010, due to record temperatures (the hottest recorded summer in Russian history) and drought in the region. The fires cost roughly U$D 15 billion in damages.

In Canada, figures from the Council of Forest Ministers in 2008-09 estimated about 2.5 million hectares burn across Canada each year on average, and it costs C$ 400 million to C$ 1 billion a year to suppress them. There are hundreds of other examples at worldwide level.

All the examples show that wildfire is a great problem for people, communities and governments. From Australia to Zimbabwe, all nations and territories are under wildfire risk. With different risk levels, but with some degree of risk at all.

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