flame up vs flare up

flame up

verb
  • To suddenly become extremely angry. 

  • To flare; to become inflamed. 

flare up

verb
  • To burst out suddenly, as in anger. 

  • To become more intense suddenly. 

  • To burn brightly again. 

How often have the words flame up and flare up occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )