Swedlund Fire

The burned area boundary MTBS mapped from Landsat imagery, 14,668 acres. MTBS's point for the fire, 43.690, -103.512.

Burned area mapped by MTBS

14,668 acres

Area inside the final perimeter

14,518 acres

Ignition (MTBS)

September 12, 1990

State

South Dakota

Agency

Forest Service

Unit

SDBKF

Incident type

Wildfire

MTBS fire identifier

SD4369010351219900912

MTBS assessment

Extended

Perimeter map method

Digitized Other

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.

Every fire of 1990 South Dakota fire history

• Custer, SD7 miles northwest of the fire
• Hot Springs, SD18 miles south of the fire
• Colonial Pine Hills, SD24 miles northeast of the fire
• Rapid City, SD30 miles northeast of the fire
• Rapid Valley, SD32 miles northeast of the fire
• Blackhawk, SD33 miles north of the fire

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.