1940s: Wildfire, Landes, France

 

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France’s deadliest forest fire tore through the Landes forest, in the southwest of the country, in the summer of 1949. Fueled by three hot and dry summers and fanned by strong northeasterly winds, the flames devastated the forest and killed 82 people.

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1940s: Wildfire, Landes, France France’s deadliest forest fire tore through the Landes forest, in the southwest of the country, in the summer of 1949. Fueled by three hot and dry summers and fanned by strong northeasterly winds, the flames devastated the forest and killed 82 people.

These are the world's most destructive forest fires