Flagpole Mountain Fire
The Flagpole Mountain Fire burned 7,386 acres in South Dakota, in 2000. It was discovered on August 11, 2000, and contained on August 18, 2000. The cause was recorded as natural.
- Size
- 7,386 acres
- Discovered
- August 11, 2000
- Contained
- August 18, 2000
- Cause
- Natural
Map
The burned area boundary MTBS mapped from Landsat imagery, 7,697 acres. Point of origin as reported, 43.295, -103.632.
The record
- Reported final size
- 7,386 acres
- Burned area mapped by MTBS
- 7,697 acres
- Area inside the final perimeter
- 7,386 acres
- Discovered
- August 11, 2000, 8:45 p.m. local time
- Contained
- August 18, 2000, 6:00 p.m. local time
- Cause
- Natural
- State
- South Dakota
- Land ownership at origin
- Forest Service
- Reporting unit
- Black Hills National Forest
- Agency
- Forest Service
- Unit
- SDBKF
- Part of
- Flagpole Complex
- Incident type
- Wildfire
- MTBS fire identifier
- SD4331410351820000811
- MTBS assessment
- Initial
- Fire occurrence record
- FS-361555
- Perimeter map method
- GPS - Uncorrected Data
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 200012
| Fire | Acres | Start | Cause |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jasper Fire | 83,508 | Aug 24, 2000 | Human |
| Houck Ranch Fire | 35,000 | Sep 17, 2000 | Natural |
| Hayes Fire | 25,000 | Sep 17, 2000 | Natural |
| Trible Fire | 12,000 | Oct 21, 2000 | Human |
| Warbonnet Fire | 11,242 | Sep 5, 2000 | Natural |
| Decker Fire | 10,226 | Sep 17, 2000 | Natural |
| Geno H Fire | 9,431 | Oct 19, 2000 | Human |
| Pepper Cr Fire | 8,599 | Sep 2, 2000 | Natural |
| Lickiny Fire | 6,500 | Feb 8, 2000 | Human |
| No Flesh Fire | 5,700 | Sep 12, 2000 | Human |
| Ftmanuel Fire | 5,300 | Sep 19, 2000 | Human |
| Gann Valley Fire | 5,000 | Mar 6, 2000 | Human |
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.