Four other major wildfires have burned hundreds of square miles in the Arrowhead region in recent years: the Greenwood Lake fire burned about 42 acres of Superior National Forest in 2021. A decade ...

As of June 13, the National Interagency Fire Center reports the Minnesota fires now cover about 30,000 acres: Jenkins Creek Fire: 16,145 acres, 94% contained Camp House Fire: 12,071 acres, 98% ...

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Other major wildfires in Minnesota’s past were even bigger. The Great Hinckley fire of 1894 burned 350,000 acres and killed 418. The Cloquet-Moose Lake fires in 1918 burned 250,000 acres killed 453.