Ricco Fire
The Ricco Fire burned 3,959 acres in Meade County, South Dakota, in 2005. It was discovered on July 8, 2005, and contained on August 3, 2005. The cause was recorded as natural.
- Size
- 3,959 acres
- Discovered
- July 8, 2005
- Contained
- August 3, 2005
- Cause
- Natural
Map
The burned area boundary MTBS mapped from Landsat imagery, 3,557 acres. Point of origin as reported, 44.194, -103.394.
The record
- Reported final size
- 3,959 acres
- Burned area mapped by MTBS
- 3,557 acres
- Area inside the final perimeter
- 3,959 acres
- Discovered
- July 8, 2005, 8:00 p.m. local time
- Contained
- August 3, 2005, 11:15 a.m. local time
- Cause
- Natural
- State
- South Dakota
- County
- Meade County
- Land ownership at origin
- Forest Service
- Reporting unit
- Black Hills National Forest
- Agency
- Forest Service
- Unit
- SDBKF
- Incident type
- Wildfire
- Unique fire identifier
- 2005-SDBKF-050505
- MTBS fire identifier
- SD4421510341420050708
- MTBS assessment
- Extended
- Fire occurrence record
- FS-1423096
- Perimeter map method
- GPS - Uncorrected Data
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 |
| Pennington County Complex | 2,025 | Jul 16, 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
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.