An extremely rare event occurred when wildfires broke out north of the Arctic Circle in Scandinavia, with one burning on the Russia–Finland border near the Barents Sea on July 20.

[1] By the end of the calendar year, the fires in British Columbia had burned more area than in any prior recorded year;[2] and California experienced the single largest (by area) fire on record, and a fire destroyed more structures than in any other in modern history.

Below is a partial list of articles on wildfires from around the world in the year 2018.

A U.S. national state of emergency was declared on July 28 due to the California fires, which had killed at least six people.

Fires in British Columbia were the second worst in the history of the province, with over 945 square kilometres (234,000 acres) burned.