Shirttail Fire
The Shirttail Fire burned 6,825 acres in South Dakota, in 1991. MTBS dates its ignition to April 4, 1991.
- Size
- 6,825 acres
- Ignition
- April 4, 1991
Map
The burned area boundary MTBS mapped from Landsat imagery, 6,825 acres. MTBS's point for the fire, 43.557, -103.501.
The record
- Burned area mapped by MTBS
- 6,825 acres
- Area inside the final perimeter
- 4,397 acres
- Ignition (MTBS)
- April 4, 1991
- State
- South Dakota
- Agency
- Forest Service
- Unit
- SDBKF
- Incident type
- Wildfire
- Unique fire identifier
- 1991-SDWCP-000005
- MTBS fire identifier
- SD4355710350119910404
- MTBS assessment
- Initial
- Perimeter map method
- Digitized From Hardcopy PBS/SEQ
- 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 19916
| Fire | Acres | Start | Cause |
|---|---|---|---|
| Unnamed Fire | 14,493 | Oct 1, 1991 | |
| Yellowrobe Fire | 4,679 | Sep 21, 1991 | |
| Horse Creek/Mcvay Fire | 2,084 | Apr 5, 1991 | |
| Unnamed Fire | 1,436 | Aug 28, 1991 | |
| N. Route Fire | 1,292 | Sep 28, 1991 | |
| Dewey 2 Fire | 1,102 | Oct 1, 1991 |
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.