Lookout Point Fire
The Lookout Point Fire burned 866 acres in South Dakota, in 1997. It was discovered on May 10, 1997, and contained on May 12, 1997. MTBS dates its ignition to May 9, 1997. The cause was recorded as debris and open burning.
- Size
- 866 acres
- Discovered
- May 10, 1997
- Contained
- May 12, 1997
- Cause
- Human
Map
The burned area boundary MTBS mapped from Landsat imagery, 1,447 acres. Point of origin as reported, 43.586, -103.470.
The record
- Reported final size
- 866 acres
- Burned area mapped by MTBS
- 1,447 acres
- Area inside the final perimeter
- 786 acres
- Discovered
- May 10, 1997, 1:20 p.m. local time
- Ignition (MTBS)
- May 9, 1997
- Contained
- May 12, 1997, 6:00 p.m. local time
- Cause
- Human, Debris and open burning
- State
- South Dakota
- Land ownership at origin
- National Park Service
- Reporting unit
- Wind Cave National Park
- Agency
- National Park Service
- Unit
- SDWCP
- Incident type
- Wildfire
- Unique fire identifier
- 1997-SDWCP-009708
- MTBS fire identifier
- SD4358610346219970509
- MTBS assessment
- Initial
- Fire occurrence record
- W-245363
- 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.
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. Fire reports from Short, Karen C. 2022, Spatial wildfire occurrence data for the United States, 1992-2020 [FPA_FOD_20221014], 6th Edition, Forest Service Research Data Archive, doi.org/10.2737/RDS-2013-0009.6. 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.