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The Peshtigo fire was a large forest fire on October 8, 1871, in northeastern Wisconsin, United States, including much of the southern half of the Door Peninsula and adjacent parts of the Upper Peninsula of Michigan.
4 Αυγ 2017 · Learn how a logging town in Wisconsin was consumed by a firestorm that killed up to 2,500 people in 1871. Find out how the Peshtigo Fire was overshadowed by the Great Chicago Fire and why it is still studied by firefighters.
On the night of Oct. 8-9, 1871, this fire destroyed in two hours a swath of forest 10 miles wide and 40 miles long and obliterated the towns of Peshtigo and Brussels, killing about 1,500 people.
8 Οκτ 2023 · Two hundred miles north, a firestorm swept through 2,400 square miles of Wisconsin and Michigan and claimed more than 1,100 lives. The Peshtigo Fire, named after the Wisconsin town incinerated in the blaze, remains the nation’s deadliest wildfire.
History of the Peshtigo Fire. Select a button below to read the story of the deadliest fire in US history. Before the Fire October 8, 1871 After the FIre Reborn from the Ashes Stories.
Fire reached Peshtigo during the evening of Sunday, October 8, 1871. By the time the fire ended, it had consumed ~1.5 million acres, and an estimated 1,200-2,400 lives (exact number unknown), including approximately 800 in Peshtigo.
For weeks, the people of Peshtigo had lived with the danger of fire all around them. The dense smoke over the village kept eyes red and watery. The smoke on Sunday, October 8, seemed worse than usual.
