| Selected
Major Historical Fires |
| Date |
| Name |
| Location |
| Acres |
| Fatalities |
| Oct 1871 |
| Peshtigo |
| WI, MI |
| 3,780,000 |
| 1500 lives lost |
| Sept 1881 |
| Michigan |
| MI |
| 1,000,000 |
| 169 lives lost |
| Sept 1894 |
| Hinckley |
| MN |
| ? |
| 418 lives lost |
| Sept 1902 |
| Yacoult |
| WA OR |
| 1,000,000+ |
| 38 lives lost |
| Aug 1910 |
| Great Idaho |
| ID MT |
| 3,000,000 |
| 85 lives lost |
| Sept 1947 |
| Mann Gulch |
| MT |
| 4,339 |
| 13 firefighters
killed |
| 1987 |
| Siege of 87 |
| CA |
| 640,000 |
| 1988 |
| Yellowstone |
| MT ID |
| 1,585,000 |
| Oct 1991 |
| Oakland Hills |
| CA |
| 1500 |
| 25 lives lost |
| July 1994 |
| South Canyon |
| CO |
| 1856 |
| 14 firefighters
killed |
| May 2000 |
| Cerro Grande |
| NM |
| 47,650 |
| July-Oct 2000 |
| Valley Complex |
| MT |
| 292,000 |
| July-Oct 2000 |
| Clear Creek |
| ID |
| 217,000 |
| June 2002 |
| Hayman |
| CO |
| 137,000 |
| July 2002 |
| Rodeo-Chideski |
| AZ |
| 468,000 |
| July-Aug 2002 |
| Biscuit |
| OR |
| 500,000 |
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