Peggs is an unincorporated community and census-designated place (CDP) in Cherokee County, Oklahoma, United States.

It was named for Thomas Pegg, acting principal chief of the Cherokee Nation during the Civil War.

[4] A tornado destroyed Peggs on May 2, 1920, killing 71 people, what was about 30 percent of the town's population at the time.

[5] It is the deadliest tornado on record to have struck within NWS Tulsa's county warning area, and the third-deadliest in Oklahoma history (after Woodward in 1947 and Snyder pre-statehood in 1905).

[6] In May 2019 another tornado hit Peggs, but the EF-2 caused no fatalities, only damage to a few homes and businesses.