Saturday, October 17, 2026

Question: Which Pennsylvania town has had an underground coal mine fire burning since 1962?

Answer: Centralia. By most accounts, the fire started on May 27, 1962, when the fire department set the town’s landfill ablaze near the Odd Fellows Cemetery. Pennsylvania closed part of Route 61 through town in 1993, the Postal Service revoked Centralia’s ZIP code in 2002, and no one knows how to put the fire out.