Missile Rd Fire
The Missile Rd Fire burned 2,500 acres in Pennington County, South Dakota, in 2001. It was discovered on January 6, 2001. The cause was recorded as railroad operations and maintenance.
- Size
- 2,500 acres
- Discovered
- January 6, 2001
- Cause
- Human
Map
The burned area boundary MTBS mapped from Landsat imagery, 2,163 acres. Point of origin as reported, 43.814, -103.204.
The record
- Reported final size
- 2,500 acres
- Burned area mapped by MTBS
- 2,163 acres
- Discovered
- January 6, 2001
- Cause
- Human, Railroad operations and maintenance
- State
- South Dakota
- County
- Pennington County
- Land ownership at origin
- Private
- Reporting unit
- South Dakota Wildland Fire Suppression
- Agency
- State or local agency
- Incident type
- Wildfire
- MTBS fire identifier
- SD4379110322020010106
- MTBS assessment
- Initial (SS)
- Fire occurrence record
- SFO-2001SDWFD3097
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 20019
| Fire | Acres | Start | Cause |
|---|---|---|---|
| Rogers Shack Fire | 11,740 | Jul 31, 2001 | Natural |
| West Hell Canyon Fire | 10,547 | Sep 26, 2001 | Human |
| Grueb Fire | 3,600 | Aug 29, 2001 | Human |
| Lemon Butte Fire | 3,500 | Aug 29, 2001 | Human |
| Van Metre Fire | 1,950 | Sep 7, 2001 | Human |
| Distant Fire | 1,920 | Sep 1, 2001 | Human |
| Mckenzie Fire | 1,100 | Sep 28, 2001 | Human |
| Dry Creek 2 (C) Fire | 1,100 | Apr 19, 2001 | Human |
| Grass Fire | 1,000 | Sep 1, 2001 |
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.