Laplante Fire
The Laplante Fire burned 14,224 acres in South Dakota, in 2002. It was discovered on June 29, 2002, and contained on July 1, 2002. The cause was recorded as fireworks.
- Size
- 14,224 acres
- Discovered
- June 29, 2002
- Contained
- July 1, 2002
- Cause
- Human
Map
The burned area boundary MTBS mapped from Landsat imagery, 14,769 acres. Point of origin as reported, 45.142, -100.650.
The record
- Reported final size
- 14,224 acres
- Burned area mapped by MTBS
- 14,769 acres
- Discovered
- June 29, 2002, 2:00 p.m. local time
- Contained
- July 1, 2002, 7:00 p.m. local time
- Cause
- Human, Fireworks
- State
- South Dakota
- Land ownership at origin
- Bureau of Indian Affairs
- Reporting unit
- Cheyenne River Agency
- Agency
- Bureau of Indian Affairs
- Incident type
- Wildfire
- MTBS fire identifier
- SD4523810066320020629
- MTBS assessment
- Initial
- Fire occurrence record
- W-302299
- Note on the perimeter
- Most logical imagery used even though threre is an extreme rdnbr offset
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 200212
| Fire | Acres | Start | Cause |
|---|---|---|---|
| Battle Creek Fire | 12,443 | Aug 16, 2002 | Human |
| Grizzly Gulch Fire | 11,589 | Jun 29, 2002 | Human |
| Wanna Fire | 7,505 | Aug 18, 2002 | Human |
| Russell Ehlers Fire | 7,000 | Feb 2, 2002 | Human |
| Cottonwood Fire | 6,656 | Aug 3, 2002 | Human |
| Evergreen Fire | 4,000 | Jun 29, 2002 | Human |
| Potato Creek Fire | 3,708 | Apr 17, 2002 | Human |
| Looking Fire | 3,004 | Jul 29, 2002 | Human |
| Painter Fire | 2,500 | Jul 16, 2002 | Human |
| Travers Fire | 2,400 | Jul 16, 2002 | Human |
| Cedar Canyon Fire | 2,000 | Jul 14, 2002 | Human |
| Bad Nation Fire | 2,000 | Jul 29, 2002 | 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.