forest fire

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   an uncontrolled fire in a wooded area

   Broaderfire

   Narrowercrown fireground firesurface fire

Questions about forest fire

What does forest fire mean?

forest fire means "an uncontrolled fire in a wooded area".

Is forest fire a common word?

forest 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.