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[Gizogin]

Basically, what is/was the closest your fortress has come to being destroyed, if you hadn't managed to rescue from the jaws of death?  For me, it was when I came two doors away from letting a Forgotten Beast loose in my castle (yes, it is actually a castle).  I had known about it for a long time, but was confident that there was no way in from the caverns to my tunnel system.  Then, at least a year and a half later, when I had all but forgotten about it, I got a message saying 'Urist McAccidentalSavioroftheFortress cancels Construct Building: Interrupted by Forgotten Beast,' and my entire life flashed before my eyes.  My masons leapt into action, erecting a series of walls in the nick of time before the FB broke down the door keeping it out of the main stairwell.  With the Beast now completely trapped, I set about assessing how it got in.  After many fruitless minutes of scrolling around, I discovered the tiniest of openings where I had previously excavated a lignite vein.  That crack is now sealed forever, and I have a captive 'six-legged quadruped made of charcoal' to play with.

[Eddren]

It was directly after my largest Overworld creation: Three Towers that reached the full height of the map. They held all of the actual production work.
I got a Siege; Nightwings. Fortunately, at this time, I had been creating tons and tons of steel armaments in the event that this would happen. HOPING this would happen.
But it was better then I expected. Those dwarves were out of their league. I sent them out, 80 strong, the entire Weight of the Fortress bearing down on my foes(The entire Fortress was militarized.), but they slaughtered them mercilessly. Valiantly as they tried, they could not overcome the fell waves of Nightwings, and finally, there were but five dwarves left. I had locked them in the Central Tower. Quickly thinking, I locked each of the Towers, confident that they could use the roof as a pathway..Which, I'll give it to them, they did. The Nightwings were really too stupid to path inside from the top, so I had plenty of time. After making sure that the crops were stored away, I had my one and only still able to walk dwarf start tending to the wounds of his comrades. Only one was saved. Only one managed to make it out without starving or dying of thirst. Finally, I waited until I could wait no longer; one of my Dwarves had wandered outside. He was going to die, if I didn't take action. So I, impatient with the battle, finished it; it was 2 Nightwings, and 2 Dwarves. And the Dwarves won.

Out of memory of the greatest battle ever known to me, I was going to leave the bodies out there, but then another Nightwing Siege finished them off.

[Necro910]

See the "Tale of the resting mayor and the siege" in my sig.

It's a good one 

[elf-fondling human]

Once, I was digging around, and I came across cotton candy. I knew I shouldn't, but I dug out a few layers. I got distracted at some point, so I stopped designating layers to be dug out. When I got back to DF the next day, I dug out another layer, and the clowns came out. I sort of hate to admit it, but I reset and stopped digging. My military was still non-existent, and I didn't feel like losing everything over morbid curiosity.

Yeah, my forts are boring, but still.

Also, if you set a water source zone over magma, will dwarves try to drink from it? What about a well?

[acetech09]

FB with gas causing lung necrosis started charging up my mineshaft which connects to my main stairwell and meeting hall... and my whole military was topside fighting some gobbos.

As the FB was charging up the stairwell, it cornered the wrong dwarf - my woodcutter was also a trained axedwarf, and he promptly severed the head of the FB.

He died of suffocation, but he will be ever remembered in my fort.

[moki]

Some forgotten beast with poisonous vapours, causing deadly lung rot in a matter of a few days for everyone that was nearby during the fight. If it was contagious, the whole fort would've died... in the end I lost 50 dwarves to the disease and another 40 to the following tantrums. Having a mature fort with 120 dwarves reduced to 30 in a few months is quite interesting and definitely did help with the lack of bedrooms. The military was reduced to two hammerlords who were in hospital with a broken finger or something at that time and who died while taking on a whole goblin siege all alone the next year. Luckily, I had the lockdown mechanism in place by then and just waited until the situation calmed down again.
The final survivors were, of course, some antisocial psychopaths who rarely had contact with the rest of the fort... What a great basis for building a new dwarven society 

[Jakob]

Was trying lava for the first time and was sieged. They ran around my fort for a while but there was no minor damage because my dorf's ran the fuck away. They chased a hauler into my magma workshops (where after quite a while, a set up a magma pumping system) and hilarity ensued when the beasts started magma floods. I had some dorf's build flood gates and walls which went alright. Except now the two parts of my fortress are separated by a magma river.

[Sinlessraptor]

A tantrum spiral after my first ambush that lowered my fortress' population from 180 to 6. I only managed to survive as the six that were left were the newest migrants, and didn't have any friends. Another migrant wave helped with the cleanup afterwards.

Fort was eventually abandoned after I got bored with the last siege, which left around 5 goblins sitting outside my entrance.

[Bluerobin]

An orc siege came through, demolished my fort, and left one child unconscious on the floor of my dining room. For some reason they decided to leave after sitting around for a month or so, the kid sat around unconscious for about another month, and then some migrants showed up. The kid lived on... briefly. I think I lost interest in the fort a bit after that. 

[GaxkangtheUnbound]

A massive siege of around ~50 werewolves (Genesis) attacked my fort.
They overwhelmed the military and ran into the fort.
Then, it became a hide-and-seek with werewolves and dwarves.
Thanks to some precautions I made with magma forges, I pulled the floodgate lever to seal in the magmaworks(Which, thankfully, had a food stockpile so the metalworkers wouldn't go far). I also managed to seal the werewolves into the old meeting center.
Then I abandoned.