What the records say
- When
- 8 Oct 1871
- Kind
- Wildfire
- Coordinates
- 45.05° N, 87.75° W
- Description
- forest fire
- Deaths
- 1152
3 sources record it
- 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 Peshtigo fire begins and destroys the town of Peshtigo, Wisconsin, and kills as many as 2,500 people, becoming the deadliest wildfire in United States…”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page
- Wikipedia year pages (German), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “Peshtigo im US-Bundesstaat Wisconsin wird mit mehreren umliegenden Dörfern ein Raub der Flammen”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page