Other Great Fires
Other great fires in the United States
and Canada are listed in Betty Spencer's The Big Blowup.
Some of those fires and others are described in detail in Stewart Holbrook's
Burning an Empire.
The Natural Resources Canada website is the reference for the Porcupine and
Chapleau-Mississagi Fires
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| 1825 | Miramichi Fire | 3,000,000 | acres burned in New Brunswick and Maine | 180 | people killed | ||
| 1846 | Yaquina Fire | 450,000 | acres burned in Oregon | ||||
| 1853 | Nestucca Fire | 320,000 | acres burned in Oregon | ||||
| 1865 | Silverton fire | 1,000,000 | acres burned in Oregon | ||||
| 1868 | Coos Fire | 300,000 | acres burned in Oregon | ||||
| 1871 | Peshtigo Fire | 1,280,000 | acres burned in Wisconsin | 1500 | people killed | ||
| 1871 | 3,500,000 | acres burned in Michigan | 10 | people killed | |||
| 1876 | Bighorn Fire | 500,000 | acres burned in Wyoming | ||||
| 1881 | 1,000,000 | acres burned in Michigan | 138 | people killed | |||
| 1894 | Hinkley Fire | 160,000 | acres burned in Minnesota | 418 | people killed | ||
| 1903 | Adirondack Fire | 450,000 | acres burned in New York | ||||
| 1910 | the Big Blowup | 3,000,000 | acres burned in Wash., Ida. and Mont. | 92 | people killed | ||
| 1910 | Baudette Fire | 300,000 | acres burned in Minnesota | ||||
| 1911 | Porcupine Fire | 490,000 | acres burned in Ontario | 70 | people killed | ||
| 1918 | Cloquet Fire | 250,000 | acres burned in Minnesota | 400 | people killed | ||
| 1933 | Tillamook Fire | 311,000 | acres burned in Oregon | ||||
| 1948 | Chapleau-Mississagi Fire | 690,000 | acres burned in Ontario | ||||