Spellman Lake Fire
The Spellman Lake Fire was reported on April 8, 2025 in Yellow Medicine County, Minnesota and burned 264 acres. It was fully contained on April 8, 2025.
- Size
- 264 acres
- Contained
- 100%
- Discovered
- April 8, 2025
Map
Perimeter mapped September 23, 2025 at 7:55 AM CDT, 264 acres (auto-generated for inform). Point of origin 44.667, -95.758.
The incident
- Size
- 264 acres
- Containment
- 100%
- Discovered
- April 8, 2025 at 3:32 PM CDT
- Contained
- April 8, 2025 at 10:00 PM CDT
- Controlled
- April 9, 2025 at 6:00 PM CDT
- Cause
- Undetermined
- Location
- Spellman Lake Waterfowl Production Area, 3 Miles Northeast of Normania, MN
- County
- Yellow Medicine County
- State
- Minnesota
- Nearest city reported
- Hanely Falls
- Protecting agency
- USFWS
- Jurisdiction
- USFWS
- Land ownership at origin
- USFWS
- Incident management
- Type 4 IC, Type 4 Incident
- Primary fuel
- Tall Grass (2.5 feet)
- Estimated cost to date
- $5,000
- Incident type
- Wildfire
- Unique fire identifier
- 2025-MNBNR-000522
- IRWIN identifier
- 8216C51C-F2A2-4354-95FA-AB80C8E8070B
Weather in the area
This fire is no longer listed as current. The forecast for Cottonwood, MN covers the area today.
Nearby
- Cottonwood, MN6 miles southeast of the fire’s origin
- Minneota, MN13 miles southwest of the fire’s origin
- Granite Falls, MN14 miles northeast of the fire’s origin
- Marshall, MN15 miles south of the fire’s origin
- Montevideo, MN20 miles north of the fire’s origin
- Dawson, MN23 miles northwest 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 September 23, 2025 at 7:55 AM CDT. Identifier 2025-MNBNR-000522.