Houck Ranch Fire
The Houck Ranch Fire burned 35,000 acres in South Dakota, in 2000. It was discovered on September 17, 2000. The cause was recorded as natural.
- Size
- 35,000 acres
- Discovered
- September 17, 2000
- Cause
- Natural
Map
The burned area boundary MTBS mapped from Landsat imagery, 8,743 acres. Point of origin as reported, 44.466, -100.943.
The record
- Reported final size
- 35,000 acres
- Burned area mapped by MTBS
- 8,743 acres
- Discovered
- September 17, 2000
- Cause
- Natural
- State
- South Dakota
- Land ownership at origin
- Private
- Reporting unit
- Agar Volunteer Fire Department
- Agency
- State or local agency
- Incident type
- Wildfire
- MTBS fire identifier
- SD4461510096020000917
- MTBS assessment
- Initial
- Fire occurrence record
- SDVFD_1734
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 |
| 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 |
| Flagpole Mountain Fire | 7,386 | Aug 11, 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
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.