surface fire

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   a forest fire that burns only the surface litter and undergrowth

   Broaderforest fire

Questions about surface fire

What does surface fire mean?

surface fire means "a forest fire that burns only the surface litter and undergrowth".

Is surface fire a common word?

surface 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.