Allen Stueckle Fire
The Allen Stueckle Fire burned 1,200 acres in South Dakota, in 2004. It was discovered on March 24, 2004. The cause was recorded as debris and open burning.
- Size
- 1,200 acres
- Discovered
- March 24, 2004
- Cause
- Human
Map
The burned area boundary MTBS mapped from Landsat imagery, 1,331 acres. Point of origin as reported, 45.869, -99.683.
The record
- Reported final size
- 1,200 acres
- Burned area mapped by MTBS
- 1,331 acres
- Discovered
- March 24, 2004
- Cause
- Human, Debris and open burning
- State
- South Dakota
- Land ownership at origin
- Private
- Reporting unit
- South Dakota Wildland Fire Suppression
- Agency
- State or local agency
- Incident type
- Wildfire
- MTBS fire identifier
- SD4586109966220040324
- MTBS assessment
- Initial
- Fire occurrence record
- SFO-SD01750604-4601
- Note on the perimeter
- landcover contains mainly crops
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 20042
| Fire | Acres | Start | Cause |
|---|---|---|---|
| Tacoma Park Place Fire | 1,400 | Apr 2, 2004 | |
| River Bottom Fire | 1,200 | May 11, 2004 | Natural |
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.