South Sarpy Fire
The South Sarpy Fire was reported on July 12, 2015 in Big Horn County, Montana and burned 5,040 acres. It was fully contained on July 13, 2015.
- Size
- 5,040 acres
- Contained
- 100%
- Discovered
- July 12, 2015
- Personnel
- 30
Map
Perimeters are published for fires from 2020 on; the map shows this fire’s point of origin. Point of origin 45.781, -107.156.
The incident
- Size
- 5,040 acres
- Containment
- 100%
- Discovered
- July 12, 2015 at 5:08 PM MDT
- Contained
- July 13, 2015 at 8:00 PM MDT
- Cause
- Undetermined
- County
- Big Horn County
- State
- Montana
- Nearest city reported
- Hardin
- Personnel assigned
- 30
- Incident management
- Type 4 IC
- Primary fuel
- Timber (Grass and Understory)
- Estimated cost to date
- $600,000
- Incident type
- Wildfire
- Unique fire identifier
- 2015-MTLG22-015411
- IRWIN identifier
- 2ED5F58E-93F7-4AFB-9C9F-19C9313D6796
From the incident teams’ reports
The status summaries (ICS-209 forms) the incident teams filed: 5, from July 13, 2015 to July 16, 2015. These are the teams’ own estimates, written while the incident was running, and personnel is totaled from the resources each report lists. A fact the reports leave blank is not shown, and a zero on the form is treated as blank.
- Most personnel assigned
- 12 on July 13, 2015
- Cost reported by the teams
- $600,000, in 2015 dollars
- Primary fuel model reported
- Timber (Grass and Understory)
- Suppression strategy reported
- Full suppression
Acres reported by day
The largest rise between two days’ reports was 2,463 acres, on July 14, 2015.
Reported acres by day, as a table
| Day | Acres | Change from the day before |
|---|---|---|
| Jul 13, 2015 | 2,500 | |
| Jul 14, 2015 | 4,963 | +2,463 |
| Jul 15, 2015 | 4,963 | 0 |
| Jul 16, 2015 | 5,040 | +77 |
Weather in the area
This fire is no longer listed as current. The forecast for Crow Agency, MT covers the area today.
Nearby
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Incident record from the National Interagency Fire Center’s Wildland Fire Interagency Geospatial Services (WFIGS), as the incident’s managers report it; last updated September 22, 2015 at 10:35 AM MDT. Identifier 2015-MTLG22-015411.
Incident figures from ICS-209-PLUS: St. Denis, Lise A., Karen C. Short, Kathryn McConnell, Maxwell C. Cook, Nathan P. Mietkiewicz, Mollie Buckland and Jennifer K. Balch, 2023, All-hazards dataset mined from the US National Incident Management System 1999-2020, Scientific Data 10, 112, doi.org/10.1038/s41597-023-01955-0; data on figshare, doi.org/10.6084/m9.figshare.19858927.v3, licensed CC BY 4.0. This site matched each incident to the fire by the dataset’s own links where it has them, and otherwise by name, start date, state and size, and left out figures too large to be possible for a fire of its size.