Historically
Significant Wildland Fires
Date
|
Name
|
Location
|
Acres
|
Significance
|
October
1825 |
Miramichi and Maine Fires
|
New
Brunswick and Maine |
3,000,000
|
Large Amount of
Acreage Burned
|
October
1871 |
Peshtigo |
Wisconsin
and Michigan |
3,780,000
|
1,500 Lives Lost
in Wisconsin
|
September
1881 |
Michigan |
Michigan
|
1,000,000
|
169
Lives Lost |
September
1894 |
Hinckley |
Minnesota
|
Undetermined
|
418
Lives Lost |
September
1894 |
Wisconsin |
Wisconsin
|
Several
Million |
Undetermined,
Some Lives Lost |
September
1902 |
Yacoult |
Washington
and Oregon |
1,000,000
+ |
38
Lives Lost |
April
1903 |
Adirondack |
New
York |
637,000
|
Large
Amount of Acreage Burned |
August
1910 |
Great Idaho |
Idaho
and Montana |
3,000,000
|
85
Lives Lost |
October
1918 |
Cloquet-Moose
Lake |
Minnesota |
250,000 |
450
Lives Lost |
August
1933 |
Tillamook |
Oregon
|
311,000
|
1
Life Lost, Same area burned again in 1939 |
October
1947 |
Maine |
Maine
|
205,678
|
16
Lives Lost |
1949
|
Mann
Gulch |
Montana
|
4,339
|
13
Smokejumpers Killed |
1967
|
Sundance
|
Idaho
|
56,000
|
Burned
50,000 acres in just nine hours |
September
1970 |
Laguna
|
California
|
175,425
|
382
Structures Destroyed |
July
1977 |
Sycamore
|
California
|
805
|
234
Structures Destroyed |
November
1980 |
Panorama
|
California
|
23,600
|
325
Structures Destroyed |
1987
|
Siege
of 87' |
California
|
640,000
|
Valuable
timber lost on the Klamath and Stanislaus National Forests
|
1988
|
Yellowstone |
Montana
and Idaho |
1,585,000
|
Large Amount of
Acreage Burned
|
1988
|
Canyon
Creek |
Montana
|
250,000
|
Large Amount of
Acreage Burned
|
June
1990 |
Painted
Cave |
California
|
4,900
|
641
Structures Destroyed |
June
1990 |
Dude
Fire |
Arizona
|
24,174
|
6
Lives Lost
63 homes destroyed |
October
1991 |
Oakland
Hills |
California
|
1,500
|
25
Lives Lost and 2,900 Structures Destroyed |
August
1992 |
Foothills Fire |
Idaho
|
257,000
|
1
Life Lost |
July
1994 |
South
Canyon Fire |
Colorado
|
1,856
|
14
Lives Lost |
July
1994 |
Idaho City Complex |
Idaho
|
154,000
|
1
Life Lost |
August
1996 |
Cox Wells |
Idaho
|
219,000
|
Largest Fire of
the Year
|
June
1996 |
Millers
Reach |
Alaska
|
37,336
|
344
Structures Destroyed |
July
1997 |
Inowak |
Alaska
|
610,000
|
Threatened
3 Villages |
1998
|
Volusia
Complex |
Florida
|
111,130
|
Thousands of people
evacuated from several counties
|
1998
|
Flagler/St.
John |
Florida
|
94,656
|
Forced
the evacuation of thousands of residents |
August
1999 |
Dunn
Glen Complex |
Nevada
|
288,220
|
Largest
Fire of the Year |
August
- November 1999 |
Big
Bar Complex |
California
|
140,947
|
Series
of fires caused several evacuations during a 3 1/2 month period |
September
- November 1999 |
Kirk
Complex |
California
|
86,700
|
Hundreds of
people were evacuated by this complex of fires that burned for
almost 3 months
|
May
2000 |
Cerro
Grande |
New
Mexico |
47,650
|
Originally
a prescribed fire, 235 structures destroyed and
Los Alamos National Laboratory damaged |
|