gigafire

Etymology

From giga- + fire.

gigafire means A wildfire which burns more than one million acres. Lexicurio rates it Sui generis — a strength score of 100 out of 100.

noun

A wildfire which burns more than one million acres.“When we coined the term "megafire" for wildfires that exceed 100,000 acres, it was in the back of our mind that if a fire reached 1 million acres it would be called a "gigafire".”