What the records say
- When
- 1910
- Kind
- Wildfire
- Coordinates
- 47.43° N, 116.10° W
- Description
- wildfire in the northwestern United States in the summer of 1910
- Deaths
- 87
Great Fire of 1910
Wildfire in the northwestern United States
The Great Fire of 1910 was a wildfire in the Inland Northwest region of the United States which burned three million acres in Northern Idaho and Western Montana in the summer of 1910, with extensions into Eastern Washington and Southeast British Columbia. The area burned included large parts of the Bitterroot, Cabinet, Clearwater, Coeur d'Alene, Flathead, Kaniksu, Kootenai, Lewis and Clark, Lolo, and St.
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- Wikidata: famines, epidemics and firesWikidata contributorsCreative Commons CC0 1.0 (public domain dedication)Source page
- Wikipedia year pages (English), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “The Great Fire of 1910 ("Big Blowup"), a wildfire that burns 4,700 square miles in the Inland Northwest of the United States, due to dry weather”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page
- Wikipedia year pages (German), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “In den nordwestlichen US-Bundesstaaten Washington, Idaho und Montana wütet der Große Brand von 1910”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page
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