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.
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Saturday 5 September
First reported
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acreage not yet reported
40
days burning so far
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no share of the perimeter reported held yet
The official record as of 11:09am today
The Bird Fire is on the interagency wildfire record in Sioux County, nd. 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.
Undetermined
The cause has not yet been determined.
40 days
on record — first written down on Saturday 5 September at 10:45am local time.
46.176, -100.675lat, lon
is the official point of origin on the interagency record.
Conditions measured 10.9 miles from the fire: 41°F, air at 70% humidity, a 21 mph wind out of the north-west.
Six other fires are burning inside the same view. Hwy 1806 Fire started on Sunday 23 August, 4.4 miles south, and has reached 350 acres with 2 people assigned. Eagle Nest Fire started on Friday 11 September, 4.4 miles south, and has reached an unrecorded size. Stone pile Fire started on Sunday 23 August, 5.4 miles south, and has reached 3 acres. Concerte Fire started on Sunday 23 August, 5.5 miles south, and has reached 0 acres. Rim Fire started on Wednesday 9 September, 5.5 miles south, and has reached an unrecorded size. Causeway Rd Fire started on Monday 7 September, 5.6 miles south, and has reached an unrecorded size. 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 11 times so far. The thickest of it was moderate between 10:00am and 12:00pm 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.