Meat Hook Fire
The Meat Hook Fire burned 2,339 acres in South Dakota, in 2003. It was discovered on August 27, 2003, and contained on August 31, 2003. The cause was recorded as natural.
- Size
- 2,339 acres
- Discovered
- August 27, 2003
- Contained
- August 31, 2003
- Cause
- Natural
Map
The burned area boundary MTBS mapped from Landsat imagery, 2,522 acres. Point of origin as reported, 45.435, -103.240.
The record
- Reported final size
- 2,339 acres
- Burned area mapped by MTBS
- 2,522 acres
- Area inside the final perimeter
- 2,364 acres
- Discovered
- August 27, 2003, 6:00 p.m. local time
- Contained
- August 31, 2003, 8:00 p.m. local time
- Cause
- Natural
- State
- South Dakota
- Land ownership at origin
- State
- Reporting unit
- Miles City Field Office
- Agency
- Forest Service
- Unit
- MTNRC
- Incident type
- Wildfire
- MTBS fire identifier
- SD4544610323120030827
- MTBS assessment
- Initial
- Fire occurrence record
- W-118751
- Perimeter records
- 2 on file for this fire; the largest is shown
- Note on the perimeter
- Information is from the Individual Wildland Fire Report
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 200312
| Fire | Acres | Start | Cause |
|---|---|---|---|
| Red Point Fire | 17,568 | Jul 21, 2003 | Natural |
| Papa Fire | 4,992 | Aug 13, 2003 | Human |
| Jim River Fire | 4,258 | Apr 10, 2003 | Human |
| Joel Bertsch 2 Fire | 2,700 | Aug 23, 2003 | Human |
| Miller Ranch Fire | 2,500 | Aug 13, 2003 | Human |
| Hog Fire | 2,214 | Aug 25, 2003 | Natural |
| Labor Ranch Fire | 1,600 | Aug 14, 2003 | |
| Supper Fire | 1,340 | Aug 13, 2003 | Human |
| Hollow Horn Fire | 1,200 | Aug 11, 2003 | Human |
| Pine Ridge Fire | 1,200 | Sep 4, 2003 | |
| Bad Bob Fire | 1,174 | Apr 12, 2003 | Human |
| Cottonwood Creek Fire | 1,155 | Aug 3, 2003 | Natural |
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.