Sheflo Wf Fire

No perimeter survives for this fire; the map shows its reported point of origin. Point of origin as reported, 48.808, -100.884.

Reported final size

1,011 acres

Area inside the final perimeter

758 acres

Discovered

April 21, 2010, 4:45 a.m. local time

Contained

April 21, 2010, 11:45 p.m. local time

Cause

Undetermined

State

North Dakota

Land ownership at origin

Private

Reporting unit

J. Clark Salyer National Wildlife Refuge

Agency

PRI

Unit

NDJCR

Incident type

Wildfire

Unique fire identifier

2010-NDJCR-FC0G

Fire occurrence record

FWS-2010NDJCRFC0G

Note on the perimeter

The Sheflo WF was reported around 4:50 pm on April 21, 2010 by State Radio. Westhope VFD and Upham VFD were the first to respond at approximately 5:30 pm. I was implementing a controlled burn 80 miles to the south when I received the call at approximat

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.

• Bottineau, ND20 miles east of the fire
• Minot Air Force Base, ND34 miles southwest of the fire
• Surrey, ND41 miles south of the fire
• Minot, ND44 miles southwest of the fire
• Burlington, ND44 miles southwest of the fire
• Shell Valley, ND46 miles east of the fire

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. 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.