Unnamed Prescribed Fire
The Unnamed Prescribed Fire burned 2,304 acres in South Dakota, in 2009. It was discovered on March 30, 2009. The cause was recorded as debris and open burning.
- Size
- 2,304 acres
- Discovered
- March 30, 2009
- Cause
- Human
Map
The burned area boundary MTBS mapped from Landsat imagery, 1,868 acres. Point of origin as reported, 44.077, -103.484.
The record
- Reported final size
- 2,304 acres
- Burned area mapped by MTBS
- 1,868 acres
- Discovered
- March 30, 2009
- Cause
- Human, Debris and open burning
- State
- South Dakota
- Reporting unit
- South Dakota Wildland Fire Suppression
- Agency
- State or local agency
- Incident type
- Prescribed fire
- MTBS fire identifier
- SD4410010348620090330
- MTBS assessment
- Initial (SS)
- Fire occurrence record
- SFO-2009-SD-SDS11301
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 20094
| Fire | Acres | Start | Cause |
|---|---|---|---|
| Unnamed Fire | 3,175 | Oct 5, 2009 | Human |
| Unnamed Fire | 2,148 | Mar 30, 2009 | Human |
| Grand River Fire | 1,063 | Sep 27, 2009 | Human |
| Unnamed Fire | 1,020 | Jan 1, 2009 | Human |
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.