brush fire

1. 1.

   an uncontrolled fire that consumes brush and shrubs and bushes

   Broaderfire

Questions about brush fire

What does brush fire mean?

brush fire means "an uncontrolled fire that consumes brush and shrubs and bushes".

Is brush fire a common word?

brush fire is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.