Wildfires

Connected Sites: 10

WHS severely damaged by wildfires after being enlisted as a WHS.

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Connected Sites

Garajonay
Inscribed: 1986
3.19
109
6
2012
Serra de Tramuntana
Inscribed: 2011
2.81
157
5
2013
Yellowstone
Yellowstone
United States of America
Inscribed: 1978
4.48
294
12
1988
Cerrado Protected Areas
Inscribed: 2001
3.22
31
5
2017
Mount Kenya
Inscribed: 1997
2.86
48
2
2019: "Fires Have Already Destroyed More Than 80,000 Hectares Of Forest And Grassland, Which Represents Almost Half The Area Of The World Heritage Site"
See Whc.Unesco.Org
Risco Caido
Inscribed: 2019
2.43
59
4
"A Mountain Fire, Sparked By A Welder Using A Soldering Iron, Spiralled Out Of Control In Gran Canaria, Spain, On Sunday August 11th [2019] Causing Mass Evacuations. ... It Has Spread From The Artenara Municipality Into Both Galdar And Tejeda, Including The Sacred Mountains World Heritage Site And Is Burning Through The Pine Forests Of The Caldera De Tejeda."
See 7dnews.Com
Gondwana Rainforests
Inscribed: 1986
3.29
112
5
Kilimanjaro National Park
Inscribed: 1987
3.92
103
7
October 2020
See Whc.Unesco.Org
Fraser Island
Fraser Island
Australia
Inscribed: 1992
3.91
110
8
Los Alerces National Park
Inscribed: 2017
3.68
28
4
January 2024, Probably Caused By Arson And An Unusual Heatwave
See Www.Bbc.Com