noun. A raging, rapidly spreading fire.

noun. Something that acts very quickly and intensely.

noun. Lightning occurring without audible thunder.

noun. A luminosity that appears over swamps or marshes at night; ignis fatuus.

noun. A highly flammable material, such as Greek fire, once used in warfare.

idiom. (like wildfire) Rapidly and intensely.

noun. A composition of inflammable materials readily catching fire and hard to be extinguished; Greek fire: often used figuratively.

noun. Sheet-lightning; a kind of lightning unaccompanied by thunder.

noun. The blue flames of alcohol burnt in some dishes when brought on table, as with plum-pudding.

noun. In coal-mining, the name formerly sometimes given by miners to fire-damp.

noun. Erysipelas; also, lichen circumseriptus, an eruptive disease, consisting of clusters or patches of papulæ.

noun. A disease of sheep, attended with inflammation of the skin.

noun. A composition of inflammable materials, which, kindled, is very hard to quench; Greek fire.

noun. undefined

noun. An old name for erysipelas.

noun. A disease of sheep, attended with inflammation of the skin.

noun. A sort of lightning unaccompanied by thunder.

noun. A rapidly spreading fire, especially one occurring in a wildland area.

noun. Greek fire, Byzantine fire.

noun. A spreading disease of the skin, particularly erysipelas.

noun. Something that acts quickly and uncontrollably.

noun. a raging and rapidly spreading conflagration

"And we live in San Diego, where clearly a Santa Ana wildfire is a more likely disaster."

brushfire  bushfire  conflagration  wild-fire rash  

spread like wildfire  

conflagration  inferno  

a-year  arousal  deforestation  drought-fueled  five-pence  

forest fire