Galena Fire
The Galena Fire burned 16,931 acres in South Dakota, in 1988. MTBS dates its ignition to July 5, 1988.
- Size
- 16,931 acres
- Ignition
- July 5, 1988
Map
The burned area boundary MTBS mapped from Landsat imagery, 16,931 acres. MTBS's point for the fire, 43.781, -103.405.
The record
- Burned area mapped by MTBS
- 16,931 acres
- Area inside the final perimeter
- 17,976 acres
- Ignition (MTBS)
- July 5, 1988
- State
- South Dakota
- Agency
- Forest Service
- Unit
- SDBKF
- Incident type
- Wildfire
- MTBS fire identifier
- SD4378110340519880705
- 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 19886
| Fire | Acres | Start | Cause |
|---|---|---|---|
| Lightning Fire | 18,420 | Sep 10, 1988 | |
| Short Pines Fire | 5,513 | Jun 20, 1988 | |
| Westberry Trail Fire | 3,944 | Jul 26, 1988 | |
| Windy Point Fire | 1,333 | Mar 22, 1988 | |
| Smithwick Fire | 1,155 | Aug 19, 1988 | |
| Fairburn Fire | 1,036 | Mar 20, 1988 |
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.