DEADLIEST U.S. WILDFIRES

• 1200+ deaths, 1871

(Peshtigo Fire, Wisconsin) • 453+ deaths, 1918 (Clo

quet Fire, Minnesota) • 418+ deaths, 1894 (Hin

kley Fire, Minnesota) • 282 deaths, 1882 (Thumb

Fire, Michigan) • 87 deaths, 1910 (Great Fire of 1910, Idaho and Montana) • 84 deaths, 2018 (Camp

Fire, Paradise, California) • 65 deaths, 1902 (Yacolt Burn, Oregon and Washington) • 29 deaths, 1933 (Griffith Park Fire, Los Angeles, California) • 25 deaths, 1991 (Tunnel Fire, Oakland Hills, California) • 22 deaths, 2017 (Tubbs

Fire, California) • 19 deaths, 2013 (Yarnell

Fire, Arizona) • 16 deaths, 1947 (The Great Fires of 1947, Maine) • 15 deaths, 2003 (Cedar Fire, Sand Diego County, California) • 15 deaths, 1953 (Rattlesnake Fire, California) 15 deaths, 1937 (Blackwater Creek Fire, Wyoming) • 14 deaths, 2017 (Gatlin

burg, Tennessee) • 13 deaths, 1994 (South

Canyon Fire, Colorado)