| Peshtigo,
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| v | Oct.
8–14 1871 |
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| v | over
1,500 lives lost and 3.8 million acres |
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| burned
in nation's worst forest fire |
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| v | Weather:
prolonged and widespread drought |
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high temperatures, capped off by a cyclonic |
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| storm
in early October |
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| v | Started
same day as Chicago fire (cow/lantern) |
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| v | http://www.peshtigofire.info/ |
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