Coffee Fire
The Coffee Fire burned 5,240 acres in South Dakota, in 1987. MTBS dates its ignition to August 11, 1987.
- Size
- 5,240 acres
- Ignition
- August 11, 1987
Map
The burned area boundary MTBS mapped from Landsat imagery, 5,240 acres. MTBS's point for the fire, 43.258, -104.003.
The record
- Burned area mapped by MTBS
- 5,240 acres
- Area inside the final perimeter
- 4,836 acres
- Ignition (MTBS)
- August 11, 1987
- State
- South Dakota
- Agency
- Forest Service
- Unit
- NENBF
- Incident type
- Wildfire
- MTBS fire identifier
- SD4328510403819870811
- MTBS assessment
- Initial
- Note on the perimeter
- Missing Data. Attributes filled in from FIRESTAT
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 19879
| Fire | Acres | Start | Cause |
|---|---|---|---|
| Grass CK3 Fire | 11,124 | Sep 26, 1987 | |
| Big Fire | 9,107 | Sep 26, 1987 | |
| Mission Fire | 3,578 | Sep 2, 1987 | |
| Bison Trap Fire | 2,602 | Apr 15, 1987 | |
| Battle Mtn Fire | 2,477 | Jul 23, 1987 | |
| Mander 8 Fire | 2,452 | Aug 29, 1987 | |
| Unnamed Fire | 1,903 | Aug 9, 1987 | |
| Unnamed Fire | 1,871 | Oct 11, 1987 | |
| Pow Line Fire | 1,103 | Jan 11, 1987 |
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.