Sage Creek Fire
The Sage Creek Fire was reported on August 21, 2024 in Pennington County, South Dakota and burned 1,959 acres. It was declared out on September 13, 2024. The cause is listed as natural.
- Size
- 1,959 acres
- Contained
- 100%
- Discovered
- August 21, 2024
- Personnel
- 4
Map
Perimeter mapped December 12, 2024 at 11:35 AM MST, 1,959 acres (hand sketch). Point of origin 43.894, -102.356.
The incident
- Size
- 1,959 acres
- Containment
- 100%
- Discovered
- August 21, 2024 at 7:32 PM MDT
- Contained
- August 29, 2024 at 4:04 PM MDT
- Controlled
- August 30, 2024 at 11:00 AM MDT
- Declared out
- September 13, 2024 at 8:30 AM MDT
- Cause
- Natural
- Location
- Pennington County, 7 miles SW of Wall, SD
- County
- Pennington County
- State
- South Dakota
- Nearest city reported
- Wall, SD
- Protecting agency
- NPS
- Jurisdiction
- NPS
- Land ownership at origin
- NPS
- Personnel assigned
- 4
- Incident management
- Type 5 IC, Type 5 Incident
- Primary fuel
- Short Grass (1 foot)
- Estimated cost to date
- $98,000
- Incident type
- Wildfire
- Unique fire identifier
- 2024-SDBDP-241009
- IRWIN identifier
- 3BA82B16-FA93-4AA9-A828-EF927C4C29D8
Weather in the area
This fire is no longer listed as current. The forecast for Wall, SD covers the area today.
Nearby
- Wall, SD9 miles northeast of the fire’s origin
- Box Elder, SD39 miles northwest of the fire’s origin
- Ellsworth Air Force Base, SD40 miles northwest of the fire’s origin
- Rapid Valley, SD41 miles west of the fire’s origin
- Porcupine, SD45 miles south of the fire’s origin
- Rapid City, SD45 miles west of the fire’s origin
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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 December 12, 2024 at 11:35 AM MST. Identifier 2024-SDBDP-241009.