Fire Fun Facts

A page full of fun facts about fire!

Fire:

• Fire technically isn't a thing, its a chemical reaction that releases heat and light!

• The colour of the fire depends on the amount of oxygen available!

• Fire can make water by combining hydrogen and oxygen!

• Earth is the only known planet with fires!

• Spontaneous combustion is a real thing!

• Candles typically burn at 1000 degrees Celsius! (that's 1832 degrees for you Americans)

• Pyrotechnics is the art of working with fire!

• The first indications of intentional fires came from over 400,000 years ago!

Wildfires:

• Around 90% of wildfires are started by people!

• If a wildfire is big enough it's capable of modifying the weather locally!

• Wildfires travel faster up a hill than down a hill

• Certain plants only release seeds or germinate after a wildfire!

• The largest wildfire of modern times burnt ~20 million acres across parts of europe and asia!

• People all around the world have been doing controlled burns for hundreds of years!

  • • A controlled burn is when people set certain areas on fire on purpose and make sure it doesn't spread. this can be done for a variety of reasons including preventing out of control wildfires, clearing out an area for farms, getting rid or a dying/dead forest and helping plants that require fires to germinate!