Awatchfire

Pennington County, South Dakota

Bigfoot Fire

Burning 5.7 miles south-east of Quinn and 9.1 miles south-west of Cottonwood, since Monday 7 September.

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

0

acres burned so far

37

days burning so far

—

no share of the perimeter reported held yet

The official record as of 10:09am today

The Bigfoot Fire is on the interagency wildfire record at 0 acres in Pennington 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.

37 days

on record — first written down on Monday 7 September at 4:27pm local time, starting at 0 acres.

43.915, -102.069lat, lon

is the official point of origin on the interagency record.

Conditions measured 8.7 miles from the fire: 47°F, air at 82% humidity, a 23 mph wind out of the north-west.

Smoke has been recorded lying over this ground nine times so far. The thickest of it was moderate between 9:00am and 11:00am local time. The last of those windows closed 121 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. Monday 7 September

    First reported

  2. Monday 7 September

    0 acres on record

    0 ac