The largest fires are called megafires.

最大的火灾称为特大火灾。

In fact, eight of the ten largest megafires in California history have happened over just the last five years.

事实上，加州历史上十大特大火灾中的八场就发生在过去五年里。

Now they seem to be getting bigger and they talk about megafires and giga fires just on that scale.

现在它们似乎越来越大，我指的是大型火灾和超大型火灾。

These are what we call " megafires."

这些就是我们所说的“特大火灾” 。

It can also potentially prevent a megafire from occurring, which is what some people think happened in Napa of last year.

它还可以潜在地防止特大火灾的发生，有些人认为这就是去年纳帕发生的事情。

Last year's megafires in Canada fall into this category, as do the Siberian blazes of 2020.

去年加拿大的特大火灾就属于这一类，2020 年的西伯利亚大火也属于这一类。

" These fires just poofed into existence—they were nothing and then they were megafires, " he said.

“这些大火只是突然出现——它们什么都不是， 然后就变成了特大火灾， ” 他说。

This is one notch above a megafire, which experts use when, as you may have guessed, a fire has scorched 100,000 acres or more.

" 超级大火" 是" 大型火灾" 之上的一个等级，你可能已经猜到了，当一场大火烧毁了10万英亩及以上的土地就会被称为" 大型火灾" 。

When this is done well, as around the communities of South Lake Tahoe, then it can actually divert a megafire as bad as the one that they experienced in 2021.

如果处理得当，就像南太浩湖的社区一样，那么它实际上可以转移他们在 2021 年经历的一样糟糕的大火。

I started working with leaders from firefighting and philanthropy, entrepreneurship, science, tribal communities, and together we cofounded an organization called Megafire Action, whose sole purpose is to solve the megafire crisis.

我开始与消防和慈善界的领导者，创业、科学、部落社区合作，我们共同创立了一个名为“Megafire Action”的组织，其唯一目的是解决特大火灾危机。

In order to solve the megafire crisis, we need to bring our western landscapes back into a healthy balance by reducing the overgrown brush and trees in the wildlands and the forest.

为了解决特大火灾危机，我们需要通过减少荒地和森林中杂草丛生的灌木丛和树木让西部环境恢复健康平衡。

One of the hottest, driest summers on record has led to a barrage of " megafires" that have killed at least 35 people, burned nearly 5 million acres, and destroyed thousands of homes and buildings.

有记录以来最热、最干燥的夏季之一导致了一场“特大火灾” ，造成至少 35 人死亡， 烧毁近 500 万英亩土地， 并摧毁了数千所房屋和建筑物。