Great Fire may refer to:

Fires

''Listed chronologically''

Before 1700

Great Fire of Rome The Great Fire of Rome () began on 19 July 64 AD. The fire started in the merchant shops around Rome's chariot stadium, Circus Maximus. After six days, the fire was brought under control, but before the damage could be assessed, the fire reignit ...

(64 A.D.) * Great Fire of North Walsham (1600) * 1615 Great Fire of Wymondham * Great Oulu fire of 1652 *

Great Fire of Meireki The , also known as the Great Furisode Fire, destroyed 60–70% of Edo (now Tokyo), then ''de facto'' capital city of Japan, on 2 March 1657, the third year of the Meireki Era. The fire lasted for three days and, in combination with a severe b ...

(1657) *

Great Fire of 1660 Two-thirds of Constantinople (now Istanbul) were destroyed in the Great Fire of 1660. The chronicler Abdi Paşa estimated that the fire destroyed 280,000 houses and burned for approximately forty-nine hours. During the reconstruction of the city, ...

, in Constantinople (now Istanbul) *

Great Fire of London The Great Fire of London was a major conflagration that swept through central London from Sunday 2 September to Wednesday 5 September 1666, gutting the medieval City of London inside the old London Wall, Roman city wall, while also extendi ...

(1666) * Great Fire of Haverhill (1667) *

Great Fire of Northampton The Great Fire of Northampton occurred on the 20th of September 1675 in Northampton in Northamptonshire, England. The blaze was caused by sparks from an open fire on St. Mary's Street, near Northampton Castle. The fire devastated the town centre ...

(1675) *

Great Fire of Warwick The Great Fire of Warwick was a major conflagration that swept through the small town of Warwick, England, beginning at 2:00 p.m. on 5 September 1694 and lasting for six hours. The fire started from a stray spark from the blacksmith located ...

(1694)

1700s

* Great Oulu fire of 1705 * Great Stockholm Fire of 1759 * Great fire of Tartu (1775) *

Great Fire of New York (1776) The Great Fire of New York was a devastating fire that burned through the night of September 20, 1776, and into the morning of September 21, on the West Side (Manhattan), West Side of what then constituted New York City at the Lower Manhattan, s ...

Great New Orleans Fire (1794) The Great New Orleans Fire (1794) was a major fire that destroyed 212 structures in New Orleans, Louisiana on December 8, 1794, in the area now known as the French Quarter from Burgundy to Chartres Street, adjacent to the Mississippi River. On Mar ...

Great New Orleans Fire (1788) The Great New Orleans Fire (1788) (, ) was a fire that destroyed 856 of the 1,100 structures in New Orleans, Louisiana (New Spain), on March 21, 1788, spanning the south central Vieux Carré from Burgundy to Chartres Street, almost to the Miss ...

1800s

* Great Fire of Bedford (1802) *

Great Fire of 1805 The Great Fire of 1805 occurred on , in the city of Detroit, in the Michigan Territory of the United States. The fire destroyed almost everything in the city. The motto of the city, ''Speramus meliora; resurget cineribus'' ('We hope for bette ...

, in Detroit, Michigan * Great Fire of Stevenage (1807) *

Great Podil fire The 1811 Great fire of Podil (, ) occurred on the morning of 9 July 1811 in the historical and commercial Subdivisions of Kyiv, neighborhood of Podil in Kiev (''Kyiv''), the capital of Ukraine. The fire lasted for three days and almost destroye ...

(1811) *

Great fire of Tirschenreuth The Great fire of Tirschenreuth took place on 30 July 1814 and destroyed nearly all of Tirschenreuth, a small town and regional centre in the east of Bavaria, close to the frontier with Bohemia. The great fire was the greatest catastrophe in the ...

(1814) *

Great Fire of Edinburgh The Great Fire of Edinburgh was one of the most destructive fires in the history of Edinburgh. It started on Monday, 15 November 1824, and lasted for five days, with two major phases. Sequence of events The fire broke out around 10pm on 15 No ...

(1824) *

Great Fire of Turku The Great Fire of Turku (; ; ) was a conflagration in the city of Turku in 1827. It is still the largest urban fire in the history of Finland and the Nordic countries. The city had faced several large fires before, including an especially devast ...

(1827) *

Great Fire of New York The 1835 Great Fire of New York was one of three fires that rendered extensive damage to New York City in the 18th and 19th centuries. The fire occurred in the middle of an economic boom, covering 17 city blocks, killing two people, and destroyi ...

(1835) *

Great fire of Hamburg The great fire of Hamburg began early on 5 May 1842, in Deichstraße and burned until the morning of 8 May, destroying about one third of the buildings in the Altstadt, Hamburg, Altstadt. It killed 51 people and destroyed 1,700 residences and se ...

(1842) *

Great New York City Fire of 1845 Great may refer to: Descriptions or measurements * Great, a relative measurement in physical space, see Size * Greatness, being divine, majestic, superior, majestic, or transcendent People * List of people known as "the Great" * Artel Great (bo ...

* Great Fire of Pittsburgh (1845) * Great Fire of 1846, in St. John's, Newfoundland *

Great Fire of Bucharest The Great Fire of Bucharest ( or simply ) was the largest conflagration ever to occur in Bucharest, Romania, then the capital of Wallachia. It started on 23 March 1847 and destroyed 1850 buildings, a third of the city, including, according to Pr ...

(1847) *

Great Fire of Toronto (1849) The Great Fire of Toronto of 1849, April 7, 1849, also known as the Cathedral Fire, was the first major fire in the history of Toronto, Ontario, Canada. Much of the Market Block, the business core of the city, was wiped out, including the predeces ...

* Great Fire of 1852, in Montreal, Canada *

Great fire of Newcastle and Gateshead The great fire of Gateshead and Newcastle was a tragic and spectacular series of events starting on Friday 6 October 1854, in which a substantial amount of property in two North East England towns was destroyed in a series of fires and an expl ...

(1854) * Great Fire of Troy (1862), in Troy, New York * Great fire of Brisbane (1864) *

1866 great fire of Portland, Maine The great fire of Portland, Maine, sometimes known as the 1866 great fire of Portland, occurred on July 4, 1866—the second Independence Day after the end of the American Civil War. Five years before the Great Chicago Fire, this was the greatest ...

* Great Fire of Quebec City (1866) * Great Fire of Whitstable, 1869 *

Great Chicago Fire The Great Chicago Fire was a conflagration that burned in the American city of Chicago, Illinois during October 8–10, 1871. The fire killed approximately 300 people, destroyed roughly of the city including over 17,000 structures, and left mor ...

(1871) *

Great Michigan Fire The Great Michigan Fire was a series of simultaneous forest fires in the state of Michigan in the United States in 1871. They were possibly caused (or at least reinforced) by the same winds that fanned the Great Chicago Fire, the Peshtigo Fire ...

(1871) *

Great Boston Fire of 1872 The Great Boston Fire of 1872 was Boston's largest fire, and still ranks as one of the most costly fire-related property losses in American history. The conflagration began at 7:20 p.m. on Saturday, November 9, 1872, in the basement of a co ...

* Great Fire of 1873, in Portland, Oregon * Great Fire of Saint John (1877), in New Brunswick * Great Oulu fire of 1882 *

Great Fire of Key West The Great Fire of Key West was a major fire that destroyed a significant portion of the city of Key West in 1886. It was the largest and most devastating fire in Key West history. The fire began in a coffee shop next to the San Carlos Institute. ...

(1886) *

Great Vancouver Fire The Great Vancouver Fire destroyed most of the newly incorporated city of Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, on June 13, 1886. It started as two land-clearing fires to the west of the city. The first fire was farther away from the city and wa ...

(1886) * Great fire of Cochin (1889) *

Great Seattle Fire The Great Seattle Fire was a fire that destroyed the entire central business district of Seattle, Washington, on June 6, 1889. The conflagration lasted for less than a day, burning through the afternoon and into the night, during the same summer ...

(1889) *

Great Spokane Fire The Great Spokane Fire—known locally as The Great Fire—was a major fire which affected downtown Spokane, Washington (called "Spokane Falls" at the time) on August 4, 1889. It began just after 6:00 p.m. and destroyed the city's downtown ...

(1889) *

Great Fire of 1892 The Great Fire of 8 July 1892 in St. John's, Newfoundland and Labrador is remembered as the worst disaster ever to befall that city. Previous "Great Fires" had occurred in St. John's, during 1819 and 1846. Timeline At approximately 4:45 in th ...

, in St. John's, Newfoundland

1900 and later

Great Baltimore Fire The Great Baltimore Fire raged in Baltimore, Maryland from Sunday February 7 to Monday February 8, 1904. In the fire, more than 1,500 buildings were completely leveled, and some 1,000 severely damaged, bringing property loss from the disaster to ...

(1904) *

Great Fire of Toronto (1904) The Great Fire of Toronto of 1904 destroyed a large section of Downtown Toronto, Ontario, Canada on April 19, 1904. It was the second such fire for the city in its history. Incident The fire was first spotted at 8:04 p.m., on April 19, 19 ...

Great Fire of 1910 The Great Fire of 1910 (also commonly referred to as the Big Blowup, the Big Burn, or the Devil's Broom fire) was a wildfire in the Inland Northwest region of the United States that in the summer of 1910 burned three million acres (4,700 sq mi ...

, in Idaho, Montana, and British Columbia *

Great Fire of 1911 The Great Fire of 1911 took place in Bangor, Maine, United States, on April 30 and May 1, 1911. A small fire that started in a downtown shed went out of control and destroyed hundreds of commercial and residential buildings. History It started ...

, in Bangor, Maine * Great Salem fire of 1914, in Massachusetts * Centre Block great fire (1916), in Ottawa, Canada * Great Oulu fire of 1916 *

Great Atlanta fire of 1917 The Great Atlanta Fire of 1917 began just after noon on 21 May 1917 in the Old Fourth Ward of Atlanta, Georgia. It is unclear just how the fire started, but it was fueled by hot temperatures and strong winds which propelled the fire. The fire, ...

Great Thessaloniki Fire of 1917 250px, The fire as seen from the quay in 1917. 250px, The fire as seen from the Thermaic Gulf. The Great Thessaloniki Fire of 1917 () destroyed two thirds of the city of Thessaloniki, the second-largest city in Greece, leaving more than 70,000 ...

Great fire of Smyrna The burning of Smyrna (, "Smyrna Catastrophe"; , "1922 İzmir Fire"; , ''Zmyuṙnio Mets Hrdeh'') destroyed much of the port city of Smyrna (modern İzmir, Turkey) in September 1922. Eyewitness reports state that the fire began on 13 September 1 ...

(1922) *

Great Fire of 1922 The Great Fire of 1922 was a wildfire burning through the Lesser Clay Belt in the Timiskaming District, Ontario, Canada, from October 4 to 5, 1922. It has been called one of the ten worst natural disasters in Canadian history. The preceding summe ...

, in Timiskaming District, Ontario, Canada *

Great Fire of Hakodate The Great Fire of Hakodate () is a fire that broke out in Hakodate, Hokkaido in Japan Japan is an island country in East Asia. Located in the Pacific Ocean off the northeast coast of the Asia, Asian mainland, it is bordered on the west by t ...

(1934) *

Second Great Fire of London The Second Great Fire of London in December 1940 was caused by one of the most destructive air raids of the Blitz during World War II. The Luftwaffe raid caused fires over an area greater than that of the Great Fire of London in 1666, leading o ...

(1940) *

Great Fire of Valparaíso Great may refer to: Descriptions or measurements * Great, a relative measurement in physical space, see Size * Greatness, being divine, majestic, superior, majestic, or transcendent People * List of people known as "the Great" * Artel Great (bo ...

(2014)

Published works

''Listed chronologically'' * ''The Great Fire'' (Murphy novel), a 1995 novel by Jim Murphy about the Great Chicago Fire * ''The Great Fire'' (Hazzard novel), a 2003 novel by Shirley Hazzard * ''The Great Fire'' (album), a 2012 album by Bleeding Through * ''The Great Fire'' (TV series), a 2014 drama about the Great Fire of London * The Great Fire (''Vanity Fair''), September 2020 issue of ''Vanity Fair'' guest-edited by Ta-Nehisi Coates and dedicated to topics of racial justice

Other uses

* GreatFire, a non-profit organization monitoring internet censorship in China *"Great Fire", a song by XTC from the 1983 album ''

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