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After rewrite/expansion,
Great Fire of 1889 turns out to not be so great, only haveing really burned about 40,000 acres, so it's been demoted. AKRadeckiSpeaketh 14:45, 29 August 2007 (UTC)reply
I started to add other fires, but it was too much of a pain to figure out if they were worthy of top 10 notable.--
64.166.167.55 17:53, 31 August 2007 (UTC)reply
The Santiago fire should be added, as it has burned a large amount of acres (maybe not as much as some, but a lot) and has its own article.
Happyme22 05:09, 28 October 2007 (UTC)reply
adding date started
I would suggest adding the date started to each fire, so people can see which years had the worst fires
DavidPickett (
talk) 17:48, 14 May 2008 (UTC)reply
2008 fires
Not sure if these are notable enough to include, and these aren't the final acreages...
102,460 Lime Complex
86,500 Shasta-Trinity Lightning Complex
76,554 Indians Fire
59,440 Butte Lightning Complex
59,334 Iron Complex--
Berol (
talk) 20:09, 27 July 2008 (UTC)reply
La Brea fire
It's big enough to make the list (67000+ acres), but I don't know that I'd call it notable.--
76.209.221.57 (
talk) 02:28, 15 August 2009 (UTC)reply
Acres conversion to (Sq miles and) Hectare instead of sq km
US uses acres instead of square miles for burn areas. Other nations use hectares instead of square kilometers; see
Talk:Hectare and
Category:2009 wildfires. Most of the recent wildfire articles for California also uses hectares instead of square kilometers; older articles uses km2. Therefore, I will change the conversion of acres to hectare instead of square kilometers unless someone objects.
Petersam (
talk) 23:28, 6 September 2009 (UTC)reply
Most American understand square miles better than acres and don't know what square kilometers would be. Just discovered that the Template:convert can convert acres to both square miles and hectare. Unfortunately it cannot do a third conversion to square kilometers. So, I will use the Template:Convert to change acres to square miles and hectare, if no objections.
Petersam (
talk) 23:50, 6 September 2009 (UTC)reply
When land areas are expressed in acres, the metric analogue is hectares (ha). If the Convert template is used with only the acres unit, it produces the equivalent in hectares, not square kilometres. If you see acres being converted to square kilometers in Wikipedia, it is most likely because the responsible editors didn't know their units. For the purposes of this template, in order to minimize clutter, it should show the areas in acres and hectares only and "leave it as an exercise to the readers" to convert to square miles or square kilometers, if they desire. —
Quicksilver (Hydrargyrum)T@ 18:04, 18 November 2018 (UTC)reply