Grand River Fire
The Grand River Fire burned 1,063 acres in Perkins County, South Dakota, in 2009. It was discovered on September 27, 2009, and contained on September 27, 2009. The cause was recorded as power generation/transmission/distribution.
- Size
- 1,063 acres
- Discovered
- September 27, 2009
- Contained
- September 27, 2009
- Cause
- Human
Map
The burned area boundary MTBS mapped from Landsat imagery, 1,174 acres. Point of origin as reported, 45.769, -102.418.
The record
- Reported final size
- 1,063 acres
- Burned area mapped by MTBS
- 1,174 acres
- Area inside the final perimeter
- 1,066 acres
- Discovered
- September 27, 2009, 12:00 p.m. local time
- Contained
- September 27, 2009, 5:00 p.m. local time
- Cause
- Human, Power generation/transmission/distribution
- State
- South Dakota
- County
- Perkins County
- Land ownership at origin
- State or Private
- Reporting unit
- Dakota Prairie National Grasslands
- Agency
- Forest Service
- Unit
- NDDPF
- Incident type
- Wildfire
- Unique fire identifier
- 2009-NDDPF-000009
- MTBS fire identifier
- SD4576410239620090927
- MTBS assessment
- Initial
- Fire occurrence record
- FS-1482888
- Perimeter map method
- GPS - Differentially Corrected 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 20093
| Fire | Acres | Start | Cause |
|---|---|---|---|
| Unnamed Fire | 3,175 | Oct 5, 2009 | Human |
| Unnamed Fire | 2,148 | Mar 30, 2009 | Human |
| Unnamed Fire | 1,020 | Jan 1, 2009 | Human |
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.