While It’s been over a century, the “Great Michigan Fire” burned 2.5 million acres in 1871. Making it the third ... white pine and mixed hardwood forest. While California fires present ...

Perhaps the most well-known fire in the U.S. was the Great Chicago Fire, which started on Oct. 8, 1871 ... tip of Michigan's Upper Peninsula, in the Marinette and Escanaba State Forest areas.