An example for you: If it is 12 A.M in Eastern Standard Time, then it will be 5 A.M in Greenwich Mean Time. During the summer months, the time change results in a four hour difference between the two since the Eastern zone moves an hour forward in the spring.
The Great Black Dragon Fire -- 18 million acres. In 1987 the Great Black Dragon Fire burned three million acres in Northern China and 15 million acres in Siberia, making it the world's largest forest fire in recorded history.
Top National Wildfires of All Time. 1  The Great Peshtigo Fire â In 1871, the worst recorded forest fire in North American history raged through Northeastern Wisconsin and Upper Michigan. 2  Cloquet FireIn 1918, Americans were being killed in World War I in addition to a deadly Spanish flu epidemic.