| Theatre at Richmond, Va.; the governor and many leading citizens perished | Dec. 26, 1811 |
| New York City, 600 warehouses, etc.; loss, $20,000,000 | Dec. 16, 1835 |
| Washington, D. C., destroying general post-office and patent-office, with 10,000 valuable models, drawings, etc | Dec. 15, 1836 |
| Charleston, S. C., 1,158 buildings, covering 145 acres | April 27, 1838 |
| New York City, 46 buildings; loss, $10,000,000 | Sept. 6, 1839 |
| Pittsburg, Pa., 1,000 buildings; loss about $6,000,000 | April 10, 1845 |
| New York City, 1,300 dwellings destroyed | June 28, 1845 |
| New York City, 302 stores and dwellings, 4 lives, and $6,000,000 of property | July 19, 1845 |
| Albany, N. Y., 600 buildings, besides steamboats, piers, etc.; 24 acres burned over; loss, $3,000,000 | Sept. 9, 1848 |
| St. Louis, Mo., 15 blocks of houses and 23 steamboats; loss estimated at $3,000,000 | May 17, 1849 |
| San Francisco, Cal., nearly 2,500 buildings burned; estimated loss about $3,500,000; many lives lost | May 3-5, 1851 |
| San Francisco, Cal., 500 buildings; estimated loss, $3,000,000 | June 22, 1851 |
| Congressional Library, Washington, D. C., 35,000 volumes, with works of art | Dec. 24, 1851 |
| Syracuse, N. Y., 12 acres of ground burned over, about 100 buildings; loss, $1,000,000 | Nov. 8, 1856 |
| New York Crystal Palace destroyed, with an immense amount of property on exhibition | Oct. 5, 1858 |
| Portland, Me., nearly destroyed; 10,000 people rendered homeless; loss, $15,000,000 | July 4, 1866 |
| Great Chicago fire, burning over about 3 1/2 square miles, destroying 17,450 buildings, killing 200 persons, and rendering 98,500 homeless; loss over $200,000,000. The most destructive fire ever known | Oct. 8-9, 1871 |
| Great fire in Boston; over 800 buildings burned; loss, $80,000,000 | Nov. 9, 1872 |
| Brooklyn Theatre (Brooklyn, N. Y.) burned; 295 lives lost | Dec. 5, 1876 |
| Jacksonville, Fla.; 148 blocks burned over; loss estimated at $10,000,000 | May 3, 1901 |
