Pennington County Complex
The Pennington County Complex burned 2,025 acres in South Dakota, in 2005. It was discovered on July 16, 2005. The cause was recorded as natural.
- Size
- 2,025 acres
- Discovered
- July 16, 2005
- Cause
- Natural
Map
The burned area boundary MTBS mapped from Landsat imagery, 2,443 acres. Point of origin as reported, 44.079, -103.021.
The record
- Reported final size
- 2,025 acres
- Burned area mapped by MTBS
- 2,443 acres
- Discovered
- July 16, 2005
- Cause
- Natural
- State
- South Dakota
- Land ownership at origin
- Private
- Reporting unit
- South Dakota Wildland Fire Suppression
- Agency
- State or local agency
- Part of
- Pennington County Complex
- Other fire reports inside the burned area
- Dawkens
- Incident type
- Wildfire
- MTBS fire identifier
- SD4404210295820050716
- MTBS assessment
- Initial
- Fire occurrence record
- SFO-SD01750605-5182
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 |
| N Hyde Fire | 1,500 | Sep 3, 2005 | |
| Chaos Fire | 1,453 | Aug 29, 2005 | Natural |
| 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.