Windy Point Fire
The Windy Point Fire burned 1,333 acres in South Dakota, in 1988. MTBS dates its ignition to March 22, 1988.
- Size
- 1,333 acres
- Ignition
- March 22, 1988
Map
The burned area boundary MTBS mapped from Landsat imagery, 1,333 acres. MTBS's point for the fire, 43.545, -103.504.
The record
- Burned area mapped by MTBS
- 1,333 acres
- Area inside the final perimeter
- 1,386 acres
- Ignition (MTBS)
- March 22, 1988
- State
- South Dakota
- Agency
- National Park Service
- Unit
- SDWCP
- Incident type
- Wildfire
- Unique fire identifier
- 1988-SDWCP-000001
- MTBS fire identifier
- SD4354510350419880322
- MTBS assessment
- Extended
- Perimeter records
- 2 on file for this fire; the largest is shown
- Note on the perimeter
- From WFMI
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 | |
| Galena Fire | 16,931 | Jul 5, 1988 | |
| Short Pines Fire | 5,513 | Jun 20, 1988 | |
| Westberry Trail Fire | 3,944 | Jul 26, 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.