Taylor Complex Fire
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The Taylor Complex Fire was a 2004 wildfire
in Alaska
that consumed approximately 1305592 acres (5,284 km²) of land. By acreage, it was the largest wildfire in the United States between 1997-2007. The fire also was part of the record-breaking 2004 Alaska fire season
that burned more than 6600000 acres (26,709.3 km²), the most in recorded history.
Wildfire
A wildfire is any uncontrolled fire in combustible vegetation that occurs in the countryside or a wilderness area. Other names such as brush fire, bushfire, forest fire, desert fire, grass fire, hill fire, squirrel fire, vegetation fire, veldfire, and wilkjjofire may be used to describe the same...
in Alaska
Alaska
Alaska is the largest state in the United States by area. It is situated in the northwest extremity of the North American continent, with Canada to the east, the Arctic Ocean to the north, and the Pacific Ocean to the west and south, with Russia further west across the Bering Strait...
that consumed approximately 1305592 acres (5,284 km²) of land. By acreage, it was the largest wildfire in the United States between 1997-2007. The fire also was part of the record-breaking 2004 Alaska fire season
2004 Alaska fire season
The 2004 Alaska fire season was the worst on record in terms of area burned by wildfires in the U.S. state of Alaska. Though fewer individual fires formed than in 1989 when almost 1,000 were recorded, more than were burned by the approximately 700 fires that ignited...
that burned more than 6600000 acres (26,709.3 km²), the most in recorded history.