Wildfires of 2001

Rogers Shack Fire

2001South DakotaWildfire

The Rogers Shack Fire burned 11,740 acres in South Dakota, in 2001. It was discovered on July 31, 2001, and contained on August 8, 2001. The cause was recorded as natural.

Size
11,740 acres
Discovered
July 31, 2001
Contained
August 8, 2001
Cause
Natural

Map

The burned area boundary MTBS mapped from Landsat imagery, 11,791 acres. Point of origin as reported, 43.625, -103.912.

The record

Reported final size
11,740 acres
Burned area mapped by MTBS
11,791 acres
Area inside the final perimeter
11,896 acres
Discovered
July 31, 2001, 11:45 a.m. local time
Contained
August 8, 2001, 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
Elk Mountain Complex
Incident type
Wildfire
MTBS fire identifier
SD4365310385420010731
MTBS assessment
Extended
Fire occurrence record
FS-371139
Perimeter map method
Digitized From Hardcopy PBS/SEQ

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

FireAcresStartCause
West Hell Canyon Fire10,547Sep 26, 2001Human
Grueb Fire3,600Aug 29, 2001Human
Lemon Butte Fire3,500Aug 29, 2001Human
Missile Rd Fire2,500Jan 6, 2001Human
Van Metre Fire1,950Sep 7, 2001Human
Distant Fire1,920Sep 1, 2001Human
Mckenzie Fire1,100Sep 28, 2001Human
Dry Creek 2 (C) Fire1,100Apr 19, 2001Human
Grass Fire1,000Sep 1, 2001

Every fire of 2001 South Dakota fire history

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.