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The Great Michigan Fire was a series of simultaneous forest fires in the state of Michigan in the United States in 1871. [1] They were possibly caused (or at least reinforced) by the same winds that fanned the Great Chicago Fire, the Peshtigo Fire and the Port Huron Fire; some believe lightning or even meteor showers may have started the fires. [2]
The blaze, also called the Great Thumb Fire, the Great Forest Fire of 1881 and the Huron Fire, killed 282 people in Sanilac, Lapeer, Tuscola and Huron counties. The damage estimate was $2,347,000 [2] in 1881, equivalent to $74,100,455 when adjusted for inflation.
8 Ιαν 2007 · ANN ARBOR—Flames are ravaging the forests and prairies of the West, but during the autumn of 1871, fire swept across part of eastern Michigan laying claim to life, property and natural resources, primarily in Sanilac, Huron and Tuscola counties.
11 Φεβ 2022 · Small fires were burning in the forests of the Thumb, tinder-dry after a long, hot summer, when a gale swept in from the southwest on September 5, 1881. Fanned into an inferno, the fires raged for three days. A million acres were devastated in Sanilac and Huron Counties alone.
Three separate fires occurred in Michigan on October 8, 1871: the Manistee Fire, the Port Huron Fire, the Holland Fire. Together, they are known as the Great Michigan Fire. Because the fires engulfed huge swathes of Michigan wilderness that were home to an unknown number of loggers and settlers, the true death toll is nearly impossible to ...
8 Οκτ 2008 · The Great Michigan Fire of 1871 on Absolute Michigan today begins: “A sky of flame, of smoke a heavenful, the earth a mass of burning coals, the mighty trees, all works of man between and living things trembling as a child before a demon in the gale.
5 Ιουν 2023 · 1881 fire. The population was denser on Sept. 5, 1881, when a firestorm traveled across Sanilac County in four hours, leaving 150 people dead and hundreds injured.
