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Todd County, South Dakota

Back Yard Fire

Burning 1.6 miles south-east of Two Strike and 3.7 miles north of St. Francis, since Wednesday 7 October.

Map of South Dakota. The Back Yard Fire burns .
Where the fire is in the state.

0

acres burned so far

7

days burning so far

—

no share of the perimeter reported held yet

The official record as of 10:09am today

The Back Yard Fire is on the interagency wildfire record at 0 acres in Todd County, South Dakota. The figures below are the official record. A satellite heat map and day-by-day history appear here as soon as detections are attributed to this fire.

Human

is the cause on the official record.

7 days

on record — first written down on Wednesday 7 October at 7:55pm local time, starting at 0 acres.

43.195, -100.896lat, lon

is the official point of origin on the interagency record.

Conditions measured 15.2 miles from the fire: 48°F, air at 93% humidity, a 22 mph wind out of the north-west.

Six other fires are burning inside the same view. Sweet Pine Fire started on Tuesday 6 October, 1.0 miles north-west, and has reached 0 acres. Toksa 15 Fire started on Saturday 5 September, 1.6 miles north-west, and has reached 1 acres. Fb64 Fire started on Sunday 11 October, 2.9 miles north-west, and has reached 0 acres. Route 7 Fire started on Saturday 29 August, 3.5 miles north-east, and has reached 0 acres. Camo Hill Fire started on Wednesday 9 September, 3.6 miles south, and has reached 0 acres. 4 Spots Fire started on Friday 21 August, 3.8 miles south, and has reached 0 acres. Their heat is counted against them, not against this fire, and the pale rings on the map mark where they are recorded.

Smoke has been recorded lying over this ground eight times so far. The thickest of it was thin between 2:00pm and 5:30pm local time. The last of those windows closed 113 hours ago, so what is overhead now is not known.

No satellite heat has been attributed to this fire yet — either it is too new for a pass to have caught it, or it is too small to register from orbit. Everything above is from the interagency incident record and updates as that record does.

How the record has moved

Each step is a change on the interagency incident record — acreage, containment or crews — with the date it was reported. No satellite reading is involved.

  1. Wednesday 7 October

    First reported

  2. Wednesday 7 October

    0 acres on record

    0 ac