Reported Lightning-Started Fire of 1780
- When
- November 28, 1780 (reported, unverified)
- Where
- Saint Petersburg
- Part of
- Saint Petersburg Fire
A legacy hint reports a lightning strike on November 28, 1780, starting a Saint Petersburg fire that burned 11,000 homes, but no supplied passage corroborates it.
The only record of this event is a legacy discovery row stating that a lightning strike in Saint Petersburg began a fire that burned 11,000 homes, dated November 28, 1780. Because legacy rows are not evidence and no supplied passage mentions the fire, its cause, its date, the affected area, casualties, or the response, the episode remains unresolved. The date and figures are retained solely as reported values, not as sourced facts.
Sources
- Saint Petersburg Wikipedia, revision of 2026-09-28
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