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  • [Fire]: Sleeper Lake Fire
    [Date]: August, 2007
    [Location]: Luce County
    [Size (acres)]: 18,000
    [Size (km²)]: 73
    [Damage]: 0
    [Deaths]: 0
    [Notes]:

  • [Fire]: Port Huron Fire of 1871
    [Date]: October 8, 1871
    [Location]: The Thumb
    [Size (acres)]: 1,200,000
    [Size (km²)]: 4,850
    [Damage]: thousands
    [Deaths]: 50+
    [Notes]: same day as Great Michigan fire

  • [Fire]: Seney Fire
    [Date]: August - October, 1976
    [Location]: Seney National Wildlife Refuge
    [Size (acres)]: 78,000
    [Size (km²)]: 316
    [Damage]: 0
    [Deaths]: 0
    [Notes]: burned for months underground in peat

  • [Fire]: Peshtigo Fire
    [Date]: October 8, 1871
    [Location]: Menominee County, Michigan
    [Size (acres)]: hundreds of thousands
    [Size (km²)]: hundreds
    [Damage]: thousands
    [Deaths]: dozens
    [Notes]: same day as The Great Chicago fire

  • [Fire]: Great Michigan Fires
    [Date]: October 8, 1871
    [Location]: multiple locations
    [Size (acres)]: over 1,500,000
    [Size (km²)]: over 6,000
    [Damage]: thousands
    [Deaths]: hundreds
    [Notes]: fires across Wisconsin, Michigan, and the cities of Holland, Manistee and Chicago

  • [Fire]: Mack Lake fire
    [Date]: May 5, 1980
    [Location]: Mio
    [Size (acres)]: 25,000
    [Size (km²)]: 101
    [Damage]: 44 homes
    [Deaths]: 1
    [Notes]:

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More than 90% of the world’s fires are man-made, while in China, more than 98% of forest fires are man-made. In addition to arson and lightning strikes, the main causes of accidental fires come from the violation of regulations and carelessness, such as the “56” forest fire in Greater Khingan in 1987, the Indonesian forest fire in 1997, and the Australian Sydney, Canberra Forest Fire in 2004. Although global warming is causing more forest fires, changing the safe behavior of people in and around towns and eliminating fire hazards is the key to controlling forest fires, according to a study by the Germany’s University of Freiburg.

Michigan has also had several major wildfires in its history. The worst of these was the logging of the late 1800s, which led to fires that would flare up and last for a long time. The random tool generates 12 items for the Great Michigan Fires, Port Huron Fire of 1871, Peshtigo Fire, Thumb Fire, and more.

Click the "Display All Items" button and you will get a list of Michigan wildfires.

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