"spot fire" meaning in English

See spot fire in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Noun

Forms: spot fires [plural]
Head templates: {{en-noun}} spot fire (plural spot fires)
  1. A small fire started by a burning fragment of a wildfire, that causes the wildfire to spread downwind
    Sense id: en-spot_fire-en-noun-vIVuW-bk Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header

Inflected forms

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