Fire Ignition and Spread
- When
- 1894
- Where
- Pine County forests, in the region around Hinckley
After a two-month drought and high temperatures, several small fires started in the pine forests of Pine County, Minnesota.
Following a two-month summer drought, combined with very high temperatures, several small fires started in the pine forests of Pine County, Minnesota. Bog and grass fires, sometimes touched off by steam locomotives, were commonplace in the late summers of rural Minnesota. Their spread was apparently due to the then-common lumber harvesting method of stripping trees of their branches in place, which littered the ground with flammable debris.
Sources
- Great Hinckley Fire Wikipedia, revision of 2026-09-14
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