Was the 1910 fire the largest?
1825 - The Miramichi fire in Maine and New Brunswick; three million acres burned; 160 people killed.
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1871 - The Peshtigo fire in Wisconsin; the most deadly in U.S. history; 1,500 killed; 1.2 million acres burned.
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1881 -A Michigan forest fire destroyed a million acres of timber and killed 138 people.
1894 - The Hinckley fire in Minnesota; 160,000 acres burned; twelve towns wiped out; 418 lives lost.
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1910 - The great fire of 1910, Idaho and Montana; more than three million acres burned; 86 lives lost.
1918 - The Cloquet fire in Minnesota. Cloquet, a thriving sawmill town of 12,000 was gutted; timber land and property losses estimated at $30 million; 400 perished.
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1988 - Yellowstone National Park, Montana and Wyoming; a fire that was being allowed to burn broke out of the park. In all, more than one million acres of national park, national forest and private forest land were burned.
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