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Peshtigo fire
this fire burned 1,200,000 acres,On the evening of October 8, 1871 the worst recorded forest fire in North American history raged through Northeastern Wisconsin and Upper Michigan, destroying millions of dollars worth of property and timberland, and taking between 1,200 and 2,400 lives. -
Hinckley fire minnesota
On Saturday, September 1, 1894 between the hours of 2:00 p.m. and 4:00 p.m., a great firestorm consumed and destroyed Hinckley and 5 smaller communities, namely Mission Creek, Sandstone, Miller, Partridge and Pokegama. destroyed 160,000 acres, kille 418 people The summer of 1894 was extremely hot and dry. Little rain had fallen over a period of three months and conditions were ripe for fires. Many small fires had been set from the sparks of the many trains passing through and lumber companies -
The Great fire of 1910
For two terrifying days and night's - August 20 and 21, 1910 - the fire raged across three million acres of virgin timberland in northern Idaho and western Montana.
Many thought the world would end, and for 86, it did.
Most of what was destroyed fell to hurricane-force winds that turned the fire into a blowtorch. Re-constructing what happened leads to an almost impossible conclusion: Most of the cremation occurred in a six-hour period.
A forester named Edward Stahl wrote of flames shooting hu -
Tilamook Burn
The Tillamook Burn was a catastrophic series of large forest fires in the northern Oregon Coast Range mountains 50 miles west of Portland. It began in 1933 and struck at six-year intervals through 1951, burning a combined total of 355,000 acres (554 square miles). For a generation of Oregonians whose lives were touched by the fires, "The Burn" also became a place, defined by the overall perimeter of the combined fires (as in, "Let's drive up into The Burn to see if we can find some deer..."). -
The Great Fire of 1947
The summer had been exceptionally dry, seasoned for burning. But after three days, the fire had consumed only 169 acres. Islanders breathed a sigh of relief. When it seemed things couldn't get any worse, the firestorm escalated and headed into Bar Harbor. There was no stopping it. In just three hours, a three-mile wide swath of flames traveled six miles into downtown. It totally devastated vast sections of Bar Harbor, incinerating 67 summer cottages, 5 grand hotels, and 170 year-round homes. -
Chinchaga fire
During the September 20-22 period the fire was quite active,
moving 35 km on the 20th an another 26 km on the 22nd. This would result in
a towering smoke column that would reach into the upper troposphere,
permitting long-range smoke transport. Smoke was also observed in England
and Holland. -
Rattlesnake Fire
On July 9, 1953 a New Tribes Mission firefighting crew under the direction of U.S. Forest Service overhead was trapped by flames as they worked on a brush covered hillside in Powderhouse Canyon on the Mendocino National Forest. -
Laguna Fire
september 26-Oct. 3 1970: The Laguna fire burned 175,425 acres, killed eight civilians, and destroyed 382 homes. In 24 hours the fire burned from near Mount Laguna, California into the outskirts of El Cajon and Spring Valley. Previously known as the Kitchen Creek Fire and the Boulder Oaks Fire, it was, at its time, the second largest fire in the recorded history of California. -
Manter Fire
The Manter Fire started on July 22, 2000 at Manter Meadow in the Dome Land Wilderness Area of Sequoia National Forest, CA. By August 10, when the fire was fully contained, it had burned over 74,000 acres, mostly within the Dome Land Wilderness Area and adjacent lands to the east administered by the Bureau of Land Management. The fire provides an excellent opportunity to study the effects of a large, stand-replacing fire on a southern Sierra bird community.