What is Yellowstone fires of 1988?
The '''Yellowstone fires of 1988''' were the largest [[wildfire]]s in the history of the [[Yellowstone National Park]]. They began as smaller individual fires. They spread quickly out of control.<ref>{{cite web|title=The Yellowstone Fires of 1988|publisher=The National Park Service|url=https://www.nps.gov/yell/learn/nature/upload/firesupplement.pdf|access-date=November 30, 2016|archive-date=November 21, 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161121140022/https://www.nps.gov/yell/learn/nature/upload/firesupplement.pdf|url-status=dead}}</ref> The fires were made worse by increasing wind and severe [[drought]] in the [[Western United States]]. The fires burned for several months. On September 8, 1988, the entire park was closed to all non-emergency people for the first time in its history. The arrival of cool and moist weather in the late autumn brought the fires to an end. ==References== <references/> [[Category:1980s fires]] [[Category:1988 establishments in the United States]] [[Category:Natural disasters in the United States]] {{history-stub}}