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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.
Pożar Peshtigo – pożar, który 8 października 1871 strawił miasteczko Peshtigo w stanie Wisconsin. Katastrofa spowodowała śmierć największej liczby istnień ludzkich z powodu ognia w dziejach Stanów Zjednoczonych.
4 sie 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.
Learn about the most devastating forest fire in American history, which swept through northeast Wisconsin in 1871, killing 1200+ people. Find out how it started, how it spread, and how it affected the survivors and the region.
Learn about the deadliest fire in American history, which killed 1,200-2,400 people in Peshtigo, Wisconsin, and other areas in 1871. Explore the weather conditions, causes, and impacts of the fires, and how they changed fire management practices.
8 paź 2023 · Learn about the Peshtigo Fire of 1871, which killed more than 1,100 people in Wisconsin and Michigan on the same night as Chicago’s Great Fire. Read an eyewitness account by Father John Peter Pernin, who survived the firestorm and wrote a memoir.
