Wildfires of 1880

Rattlesnake Fire

1880South DakotaWildfire

The Rattlesnake Fire burned 3,114 acres in South Dakota, in 1880. The record holds its year and its final perimeter, not its dates.

Size
3,114 acres

Map

The final perimeter from the Interagency Fire Perimeter History, 3,114 acres, mapped by digitized other. Middle of the perimeter, 44.342, -104.081.

The record

Area inside the final perimeter
3,114 acres
State
South Dakota
Agency
Forest Service
Unit
SDBKF
Incident type
Wildfire
Perimeter map method
Digitized Other
Note on the perimeter
map tree planting atlas 1937

Other large fires in South Dakota in 18801

FireAcresStartCause
Shepherd Gulch Fire1,327

Every fire of 1880 South Dakota fire history

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Sources

Perimeters from the National Interagency Fire Center’s Interagency Fire Perimeter History, compiled from the Forest Service, BLM, BIA, Fish and Wildlife Service, National Park Service, the Alaska Interagency Fire Center and CAL FIRE. Records before 2014 were joined by this site: a fire report to the burned area its MTBS identifier names, a perimeter to the burned area it lies in when the names or the sizes agree.