Tacoma Park Place Fire
The Tacoma Park Place Fire burned 1,400 acres in South Dakota, in 2004. It was discovered on April 2, 2004.
- Size
- 1,400 acres
- Discovered
- April 2, 2004
- Cause
- Undetermined
Map
The burned area boundary MTBS mapped from Landsat imagery, 1,333 acres. Point of origin as reported, 45.547, -98.252.
The record
- Reported final size
- 1,400 acres
- Burned area mapped by MTBS
- 1,333 acres
- Discovered
- April 2, 2004
- Cause
- Undetermined
- 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
- SD4554709825220040402
- MTBS assessment
- Initial
- Fire occurrence record
- SFO-SD01750604-4851
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Allen Stueckle Fire | 1,200 | Mar 24, 2004 | Human |
| 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.