Flint Hills Fire
The Flint Hills Fire burned 21,055 acres in South Dakota, in 1985. MTBS dates its ignition to July 12, 1985.
- Size
- 21,055 acres
- Ignition
- July 12, 1985
Map
The burned area boundary MTBS mapped from Landsat imagery, 21,055 acres. MTBS's point for the fire, 43.349, -103.658.
The record
- Burned area mapped by MTBS
- 21,055 acres
- Area inside the final perimeter
- 21,746 acres
- Ignition (MTBS)
- July 12, 1985
- State
- South Dakota
- Agency
- Forest Service
- Unit
- SDBKF
- Incident type
- Wildfire
- MTBS fire identifier
- SD4334910365819850712
- MTBS assessment
- Extended
- Perimeter map method
- Digitized From Hardcopy PBS/SEQ
The three sizes are three measurements: the size the agency reported when the fire was out, the burned area MTBS drew from satellite imagery before and after, and the GIS area inside the final perimeter, unburned islands included. They rarely agree exactly.
Other large fires in South Dakota in 198512
| Fire | Acres | Start | Cause |
|---|---|---|---|
| Yellowbear Fire | 19,223 | Apr 14, 1985 | |
| 4th Ofjuly Fire | 18,201 | Jul 4, 1985 | |
| Seven Sisters Fire | 8,461 | Jul 12, 1985 | |
| Lantz Fire | 6,852 | ||
| Calico Fire | 6,481 | Apr 14, 1985 | |
| Whitebutte Fire | 5,690 | Aug 6, 1985 | |
| Game Range Fire | 4,064 | Jul 5, 1985 | |
| Sage Creek Fire | 2,997 | Apr 10, 1985 | |
| Threemile Fire | 2,444 | Mar 25, 1985 | |
| May Fire | 1,823 | Jul 3, 1985 | |
| Norbeck Fire | 1,803 | Apr 11, 1985 | |
| Circle E Fire | 1,531 | Aug 11, 1985 |
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. Burned areas and ignition dates from Monitoring Trends in Burn Severity (MTBS), a program of the US Geological Survey and the USDA Forest Service. 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.