Sentence examples for lightning ignites from inspiring English sources

In reporting on Lubbock, NBC News noted that "lightning ignites 22,600 fires a year in the U.S" and "that figure includes approximately 4,290 home fires, which cause a majority of the associated losses.

Resources have been stretched thin since lightning ignited about 1,100 fires throughout the drought-ridden region.

This happened in Alaska in June, when lightning ignited 50 fires a day for five days straight.

During the summer of 1988, lightning ignited a series of forest fires in the Yellowstone region that were allowed to burn freely for several days.

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.

Moreover, in a region of spectacular summer thunderstorms, lightning ignited an estimated 372 "fire starts" from 1975 to 1996 in 40,000 acres of forests surrounding Los Alamos.

The cause of the fire is being investigated, but Mr. Johnson said Fire Department officials told him that they suspected lightning ignited it.

Restoration efforts resumed after the South One fire, but less than 5 years later, lightning ignited the Lateral West fire in 2011.

Shortly after the experiment began to record shower data, lightning ignited the flammable liquid of one of the counters.

The message is that Ms. Murray's messy inclusion of the real world supplied the lightning that ignited the decade.

Lightning strikes ignited the fire and strong gusts of wind acted as a fan to enhance and spread it.