Blacktail Fire
The Blacktail Fire burned 1,991 acres in South Dakota, in 1890. The record holds its year and its final perimeter, not its dates.
- Size
- 1,991 acres
Map
The final perimeter from the Interagency Fire Perimeter History, 1,991 acres, mapped by digitized other. Middle of the perimeter, 44.532, -104.457.
The record
- Area inside the final perimeter
- 1,991 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 18902
| Fire | Acres | Start | Cause |
|---|---|---|---|
| Dumont Fire | 2,112 | ||
| Savoy Fire | 1,044 |
Nearby
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.