The phrase "ignited fire" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it to refer to the act of lighting a fire, for example, "He ignited the fire in the fireplace".
Outside, however, the bombs ignited fires in a marketplace.
This study explores the potential for "managed wildfire", whereby naturally ignited fires are allowed to burn, to alter the water balance.
Both Hat Creek Valley and Old Station had evacuated their homes because of wildfires twice in the previous 10 years, most recently in 2009, when lightning ignited fires that burned 9,300 acres.
A nurse told the interviewers that airstrikes on the night of the alleged chemical attack had ignited fires that triggered asthma symptoms in many people.
Though the quake lasted only seconds, it leveled mountains, altered the path of rivers, caused massive flooding, and ignited fires that burned for days.
She also refers to Prof Jose Torero's finding that as debris fell from the crown of the tower it ignited fires by landing on ledges.
The $1 million effort is expected to conclude that jet fuel from the hijacked airliners ignited fires that weakened steel beams, allowing upper floors to pancake onto those below.
The debris also ignited fires, which continued to burn throughout the afternoon on lower floors of the building.
One projectile hit the Syrian ammunition depot in the village, and others ignited fires in the dry fields.
As buildings collapsed from the shaking, ruptured gas lines ignited fires that spread across the city and burned out of control for several days.
