The Great Peshtigo Fire erupted on October 8, 1871, devastating 1.2 million acres of land and killing more than 2500 people in northern Wisconsin and Michigan. That’s more deaths by fire from a ...

Little remembered is the worst wildfire in the history of the United States. That fire occurred in and around Peshtigo, Wisconsin the same night as the Great Chicago Fire, but killed six times as ...

PESHTIGO, Wis. (WFRV) – Tuesday marks the 153rd anniversary of the Great Peshtigo Fire, the deadliest fire in U.S. history, which claimed between 1,200 and 2,500 lives.