On the same day as the Great Chicago Fire in 1871, a wildfire in Wisconsin became the deadliest in U.S. history. You’ve never heard of it.

On Oct. 8, 1871, even as the Great Chicago Fire roared 250 miles south, the Peshtigo Fire in Wisconsin flattened towns and killed 1,500 people or more. It’s still largely unknown and unremembered.

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