PESHTIGO, Wis. (WLUK) -- On Oct. 8, 1871, the city of Peshtigo was wiped off the map by a horrific wildfire. Nearly 152 years later, the town of Lahaina on the Hawaiian island of Maui has suffered ...

On the night of October 8, 1871, in Peshtigo, a lumber town about seven miles southwest of the Michigan-Wisconsin border, hundreds of people died: burned by fire, suffocating from smoke ...

Drawing of the Peshtigo Fire, showing people seeking refuge in the Peshtigo River. Drawing originally appeared in Harper's Weekly in 1871. (Credit: G. J. Tisdale/Wikimedia Commons/Public Domain) Much ...

The Peshtigo fire in Wisconsin started Oct. 8, 1871 and killed 1,152, according to the National Fire Protection Association, opens new tab (NFPA). At the time, Peshtigo was the permanent home to ...

But others — including the 1871 Peshtigo Fire, the deadliest on record — have struck elsewhere, including in the Midwest. Here's a look at some of the other tragedies on that list, and some ...

The "Peshtigo" fire scorched 1.2 million to 1.5 million acres in total, burning dozens of towns—including the settlement itself, which the blaze consumed in an hour, leading to the deaths of 800 ...

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.

But, did you know that an even bigger, more deadly fire broke out on the exact same day? Read about the Peshtigo Fire and other major October incidents below. The Great Chicago Fire of 1871 burned ...

Newman, a 122-foot-long ship that was abandoned during the 1871 Peshtigo fire, one of the deadliest wildfires in U.S. history. The wreck’s location and data match those of the ship, the ...

On Oct. 8, 1871, a whopping 37 individual fires burned in the Great Lakes region and were grouped into five wildfires: The Great Chicago Fire, The Great Peshtigo Fire, the Port Huron Fire ...

Today, the largest is known as the Peshtigo fire, which covered large parts of Wisconsin and the lower tip of Michigan's Upper Peninsula, in the Marinette and Escanaba State Forest areas.