The Pagami Creek Fire was a wildfire in northern Minnesota, United States, that began with a lightning strike on August 18, 2011.

[1] After weeks of slow growth, the wildfire quickly spread to over 92,000 acres (370 km2) during several days of hot, dry, windy weather in mid-September.

[2] The fire spread beyond the Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness to threaten homes and businesses.

[3] Smoke from the fires drifted east and south as far as the Upper Peninsula of Michigan, Ontario, and Chicago[4] The fire was the largest naturally occurring wildfire in Minnesota in more than a century.

[5] In November 2016, an educational mini documentary was released by the US Department of Agriculture and US Forrest Service, Technology and Development Program about the fire and public safety officers who survived it.