ground fire

1. 1.

   a forest fire that burns the humus; may not appear on the surface

   Broaderforest fire

Questions about ground fire

What does ground fire mean?

ground fire means "a forest fire that burns the humus; may not appear on the surface".

Is ground fire a common word?

ground 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.