Wicks Fire
The Wicks Fire burned 1,300 acres in South Dakota, in 2002. It was discovered on August 1, 2002.
- Size
- 1,300 acres
- Discovered
- August 1, 2002
- Cause
- Undetermined
Map
The burned area boundary MTBS mapped from Landsat imagery, 1,341 acres. Point of origin as reported, 44.697, -102.319.
The record
- Reported final size
- 1,300 acres
- Burned area mapped by MTBS
- 1,341 acres
- Discovered
- August 1, 2002
- Cause
- Undetermined
- State
- South Dakota
- Land ownership at origin
- Private
- Reporting unit
- Opal Volunteer Fire Department
- Agency
- State or local agency
- Incident type
- Wildfire
- MTBS fire identifier
- SD4470210231220020801
- MTBS assessment
- Initial (SS)
- Fire occurrence record
- SFO-2002SDSDS3423
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Laplante Fire | 14,224 | Jun 29, 2002 | Human |
| 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 |
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.