Chaos Fire
The Chaos Fire burned 1,453 acres in South Dakota, in 2005. It was discovered on August 29, 2005, and contained on August 29, 2005. The cause was recorded as natural.
- Size
- 1,453 acres
- Discovered
- August 29, 2005
- Contained
- August 29, 2005
- Cause
- Natural
Map
The burned area boundary MTBS mapped from Landsat imagery, 1,538 acres. Point of origin as reported, 44.110, -99.424.
The record
- Reported final size
- 1,453 acres
- Burned area mapped by MTBS
- 1,538 acres
- Discovered
- August 29, 2005, 3:30 p.m. local time
- Contained
- August 29, 2005, 9:00 p.m. local time
- Cause
- Natural
- State
- South Dakota
- Land ownership at origin
- Bureau of Indian Affairs
- Reporting unit
- Crow Creek Agency
- Agency
- Bureau of Indian Affairs
- Incident type
- Wildfire
- MTBS fire identifier
- SD4410709941620050829
- MTBS assessment
- Initial
- Fire occurrence record
- W-507890
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 20057
| Fire | Acres | Start | Cause |
|---|---|---|---|
| Little Bend Fire | 5,000 | Sep 4, 2005 | Natural |
| Ricco Fire | 3,959 | Jul 8, 2005 | Natural |
| Pennington County Complex | 2,025 | Jul 16, 2005 | Natural |
| N Hyde Fire | 1,500 | Sep 3, 2005 | |
| Rumford Fire | 1,254 | Aug 7, 2005 | Natural |
| Dugan Stewart - Smith Lanry Fire | 1,100 | Sep 6, 2005 | Natural |
| Hanson - Price Fire | 1,000 | Aug 31, 2005 | 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.