1666 and 1686 Flood, then fireNajprv voda, potom oheň

Two disasters twenty years apart nearly ended the village. In 1666 a flood tore through it — the Orava is a fast mountain river and its floods arrive in hours, not days. Then in 1686 the army of the Polish king Jan III Sobieski marched through Orava on campaign, Nižná was burned, and the villagers ran into the forests and waited it out. By 1695 there were 107 farmsteads and about five hundred people again. That is how these villages always recovered: slowly, and by having children.Dve pohromy s odstupom dvadsiatich rokov dedinu takmer zmazali. V roku 1666 sa cez ňu prehnala povodeň — Orava je prudká horská rieka a jej veľká voda prichádza v hodinách, nie v dňoch. V roku 1686 potom cez Oravu tiahlo na výpravu vojsko poľského kráľa Jána III. Sobieskeho, Nižná vyhorela a ľudia ušli do lesov a prečkali to tam. V roku 1695 tu bolo znova 107 usadlostí a asi päťsto obyvateľov. Presne takto sa tieto dediny vždy spamätali: pomaly a tým, že mali deti.