Big Flats is a town in Adams County in the U.S. state of Wisconsin.

[7] The community of Big Flats once had a post office, which opened in August 1862; John W. Potter was the first postmaster.

It destroyed the Big Flats Fire Department, the Town Hall, and a thrift store.

Seventy cows were crushed when a barn roof and an upper floor containing 16,000 bales of hay collapsed.

[9] Big Flats was the site of a devastating wildfire, the Cottonville Forest Fire, on May 5, 2005.

The fire jumped out of the ring and began burning the grass in the surrounding area.

Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources (DNR) firefighters came from as far away as Hayward.

[14] By the time it was contained 11 hours later, the flames had spread northward about 10 miles (16 km).

[11] He pleaded no contest and was sentenced to a local jail term of 90 days, which was stayed, with two years of probation, 100 hours of community service, and $150 per month of restitution which is applied to uninsured expenses of the victims.