Wildfires of 2007

Alabaugh Fire

2007Fall River County, South DakotaWildfire

The Alabaugh Fire burned 10,324 acres in Fall River County, South Dakota, in 2007. It was discovered on July 7, 2007. The cause was recorded as natural.

Size
10,324 acres
Discovered
July 7, 2007
Cause
Natural

Map

The burned area boundary MTBS mapped from Landsat imagery, 10,642 acres. Point of origin as reported, 43.384, -103.562.

The record

Reported final size
10,324 acres
Burned area mapped by MTBS
10,642 acres
Area inside the final perimeter
10,324 acres
Discovered
July 7, 2007
Cause
Natural
State
South Dakota
County
Fall River County
Land ownership at origin
Private
Reporting unit
South Dakota Wildland Fire Suppression
Agency
Forest Service
Unit
SDSDS
Incident type
Wildfire
Unique fire identifier
2007-SDSDS-070492
MTBS fire identifier
SD4336910356920070707
MTBS assessment
Initial
Fire occurrence record
SFO-2007SD-SDS9771
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 200712

FireAcresStartCause
Stampede Fire22,454Jul 7, 2007Human
New Underwood Fire5,000Jul 7, 2007Natural
Hay Creek Fire2,442Jul 31, 2007Natural
Four Mile Fire2,360Jun 25, 2007Human
Harris Fire2,256Jul 24, 2007Human
Horseshoe Ca Fire2,000Jul 9, 2007Human
Hay Creek Fire1,882Jul 7, 2007Natural
Unnamed Fire1,400Jul 31, 2007Natural
Ake Fire1,300Aug 10, 2007Natural
Unnamed Fire1,200Feb 13, 2007Human
4th Complex1,123Jun 29, 2007Human
Goddard Fire1,100Jul 31, 2007Natural

Every fire of 2007 South Dakota fire history

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.