List of fires

This is a list of historic disastrous fires. Urban fires are the most numerous due to loss of life and property, but also included are lists of fires in individual structures, ships and other transportation, and mines. A few of the most important wildfires or forest fires are included, but this list is not the primary resource for the most severe wildfires, which is summarized in the List of forest fires.

This is a dynamic list and may never be able to satisfy particular standards for completeness. You can help by expanding it with reliably sourced entries.
Not in history has a modern imperial city been so completely destroyed. San Francisco is gone.
Jack London after the 1906 San Francisco earthquake and fire[1]

Town and city fires

This is a list of some city conflagrations. Before the 20th century, fires were a major hazard to urban areas and the cause of massive amounts of damage to cities.

Antiquity through Middle Ages

16th century

17th century

18th century

19th century

1800s

1810s

1820s

1830s

1840s

Views of Pittsburgh the day after the 1845 Great Fire. Detail from William Coventry Wall print, "Great Conflagration at Pittsburgh".

1850s

1860s

1870s

1880s

City of St. John's after the Great Fire of 1892

1890s

20th century

1900s

1910s

1920s

1930s

1940s

1950s

1960s

1970s

1980s

1990s

21st century

2000s

2010s

Building or structure fires

Antiquity through Middle Ages

16th century

17th century

18th century

19th century

On the right, a white stone bridge arches over a wide river. On the far side and to the left, a gabled building is outlined in front of huge flames rising up to the night sky; they are reflected in the water and illuminate part of the bridge and a building with two towers in the background. There are several boats full of people in the river, and large crowds are assembled on the near bank and on the bridge.
J. M. W. Turner watched the Palace of Westminster fire in 1834 and painted several canvases depicting it, including The Burning of the Houses of Lords and Commons (1835)

20th century

1900s

1910s

1920s

1930s

Firemen struggle to extinguish the Reichstag fire on 27 February 1933

1940s

1950s

1960s

1970s

1980s

1990s

21st century

2000s

Fire at Alma College in May 2008. Only a brick shell remained and was subsequently demolished.

2010s

Transportation fires

Ship fires

Train and rail fires

Bus fires

Road fires

Other fires

Mining fires

This is a partial list of fire due to mining: man-made structures to extract minerals, ores, rock, petroleum, natural gas, etc.

Forest and countryside fires

See also

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