"gigafire" meaning in English

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          "ref": "[2018 October 26, Bill Gabbert, “Bushfire in Australia burns over 2 million acres, becoming a \"gigafire\"”, in Wildfire Today, archived from the original on 2022-08-31:",
          "text": "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\".",
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          "ref": "2020 October 5, Andrew Freedman, “California sees first ever ’gigafire’ and passes 4 million acres burned”, in The Washington Post, Washington, D.C.: The Washington Post Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2022-12-02:",
          "text": "In addition, due in part to human-caused warming and a drying climate, California recorded its first \"gigafire\" since modern records began in the early 1930s.",
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          "ref": "2020 October 23, Vivian Ho, “Fire tore through the Karuk tribe's homeland. Many won't be able to rebuild”, in Katharine Viner, editor, The Guardian, London: Guardian News & Media, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2023-02-09:",
          "text": "In a historic fire season with million-acre gigafires and more than two dozen deaths, the destruction in Happy Camp barely broke through the long list of dire news stories making the headlines.",
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          "text": "From Category 5 hurricanes to flooding from sea-level rise to gigafires, the value of losses from severe weather or climate-related disasters in the United States over the past several years has been unprecedented.",
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          "ref": "2022 August 24, David Wallace-Wells, “The American West’s Haunting, Smoke-Filled Future”, in The New York Times, New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2023-05-23:",
          "text": "Just a few years ago, fire scientists thought that the burn scars of all these megafires and gigafires might help check future spread, theorizing that it would take a while for the landscape to recover and that what would grow back could prove less flammable than what burned originally.",
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        "A wildfire which burns more than one million acres."
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        "(neologism) A wildfire which burns more than one million acres."
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