Myrtle Fire
The Myrtle Fire burned 9,886 acres in Custer County, South Dakota, in 2012. It was discovered on July 19, 2012. The cause was recorded as equipment and vehicle use.
- Size
- 9,886 acres
- Discovered
- July 19, 2012
- Cause
- Human
Map
The burned area boundary MTBS mapped from Landsat imagery, 7,644 acres. Point of origin as reported, 43.602, -103.550.
The record
- Reported final size
- 9,886 acres
- Burned area mapped by MTBS
- 7,644 acres
- Area inside the final perimeter
- 9,945 acres
- Discovered
- July 19, 2012, 2:14 p.m. local time
- Cause
- Human, Equipment and vehicle use
- State
- South Dakota
- County
- Custer County
- Land ownership at origin
- Forest Service
- Reporting unit
- Black Hills National Forest
- Agency
- National Park Service
- Unit
- SDWCP
- Incident type
- Wildfire
- Unique fire identifier
- 2012-SDWCP-000655
- MTBS fire identifier
- SD4360210355020120719
- MTBS assessment
- Extended
- Fire occurrence record
- FS-1510166
- Perimeter map method
- Differential GPS
- Perimeter records
- 2 on file for this fire; the largest is shown
- Note on the perimeter
- From WFMI
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 201212
| Fire | Acres | Start | Cause |
|---|---|---|---|
| Longhorn Complex | 43,639 | Jul 27, 2012 | Natural |
| Crookston Fire | 14,453 | Oct 17, 2012 | Human |
| Hay Canyon Fire | 9,882 | Apr 24, 2012 | Natural |
| White Draw Fire | 9,000 | Jun 29, 2012 | Human |
| Coal Canyon Fire | 5,177 | ||
| Tower Fire | 4,723 | Feb 25, 2012 | Human |
| Fire | 2,465 | Sep 19, 2012 | Human |
| South Hand Fire | 2,300 | Nov 20, 2012 | Human |
| 221st Fire | 1,600 | Aug 30, 2012 | Human |
| T-34 Fire | 1,600 | Jul 19, 2012 | Human |
| Donovan Fire | 1,500 | Jul 19, 2012 | Natural |
| Bear Butte Farms Fire | 1,380 | May 26, 2012 | 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.