Wildfires in 2018

{{short description|Wildfire season in 2018}}

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| caption = Wildfire prediction for the United States

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| date= January–December 2018

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| year = 2018

| season_name = wildfire season

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The 2018 wildfire season involves wildfires on multiple continents. An extremely rare event occurred when wildfires broke out north of the Arctic Circle in Scandinavia, with one burning on the Russia–Finland border near the Barents Sea on July 20.{{citation|publisher=NASA Earth Observatory|title=Scarcely Seen Scandinavian Fires|date=July 17, 2018|url=https://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/images/92454/scarcely-seen-scandinavian-fires}} By the end of the calendar year, the fires in British Columbia had burned more area than in any prior recorded year;{{cite web|url=http://bcfireinfo.for.gov.bc.ca/hprScripts/WildfireNews/Statistics.asp|title=Current Statistics|website=bcfireinfo.for.gov.bc.ca|accessdate=November 11, 2018}} and California experienced the single largest (by area) fire on record, and a fire destroyed more structures than in any other in modern history.{{cite web|url=https://www.sfchronicle.com/california-wildfires/article/At-least-five-dead-as-Camp-Fire-lays-waste-to-13378522.php|title=Camp Fire is most destructive wildfire in California history: 9 dead, 6,713 structures incinerated|first1=Kurtis|last1=Alexander|first2=Sarah|last2=Ravani|first3=Erin|last3=Allday|work=San Francisco Chronicle|date=November 10, 2018|accessdate=November 10, 2018}}{{citation|title="The Whole World Was on Fire": Infernos Choke California, Piling On the Grief|date=November 9, 2018|author1=Thomas Fuller|author2=Jennifer Medina|author3=Jose A. Del Real|newspaper=The New York Times|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2018/11/09/us/california-fires.html}} Similarly, the UK saw the most wildfires ever recorded in a single year, at 76,{{cite web|url=https://www.newscientist.com/article/2200502-the-uk-has-already-had-more-wildfires-in-2019-than-any-year-on-record/|title=The UK has already had more wildfires in 2019 than any year on record|publisher=NewScientist|date=April 23, 2018|last=Vaughan|first=Adam|access-date=March 18, 2020}} while Greece saw the deadliest wildfires in its history, with 102 casualties.

Below is a partial list of articles on wildfires from around the world in the year 2018.