Wildfire Burns 56% Of Worlds Forests

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A wildfire, is an uncontrolled fire often occurring in forest areas, but the fire can also burn houses or agricultural resources. The causes of the fire include lightning, human carelessness, arson, volcano eruption in and around the areas of forest Wildfires tend to be most common and severe during years of drought and occur on days of strong winds.

Wildfires are very common in many places around the world, The forest in Australia as well as Western Cape of South Africa, and California is mostly burnt every year. The forested areas of the United States and Canada are also susceptible to wildfires.

The 2007 Greek forest fires were a series of massive forest fires that broke out in several areas across Greece throughout the summer of 2007.

More than 350 million ha of forests were burned around the world in 2000. This area equals the size of India. Most fires are out of control because farmers lack the skills on how to contain them

Wildfires are increasingly damaging the world's forests, destroying millions of hectares of valuable timber and other forest products every year. 56 percent of the worlds forests have been burnt from one time or another.