Three hundred and fifty of these men, women, and children are buried in a mass grave at the Peshtigo Fire Cemetery. The Peshtigo and Chicago fires weren’t the only infernos that raged that day.

Little remembered is the worst wildfire in the history of the United States. That fire occurred in and around Peshtigo, Wisconsin the same night as the Great Chicago Fire, but killed six times as ...

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.