Wildfires of 1949

Big Elk Fire

1949South DakotaWildfire

The Big Elk Fire burned 4,940 acres in South Dakota, in 1949. The record holds its year and its final perimeter, not its dates.

Size
4,940 acres

Map

The final perimeter from the Interagency Fire Perimeter History, 4,940 acres, mapped by digitized other. Middle of the perimeter, 44.267, -103.465.

The record

Area inside the final perimeter
4,940 acres
State
South Dakota
Agency
Forest Service
Unit
SDBKF
Incident type
Wildfire
Perimeter map method
Digitized Other

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.