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Custer County, South Dakota

Booms Canyon Fire

Burning 8.3 miles north-west of Hot Springs and 9.1 miles south of Pringle, since Sunday 6 September.

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

0

acres burned so far

38

days burning so far

—

no share of the perimeter reported held yet

The official record as of 10:09am today

The Booms Canyon Fire is on the interagency wildfire record at 0 acres in Custer 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.

Natural

is the cause on the official record.

38 days

on record — first written down on Sunday 6 September at 10:58am local time, starting at 0 acres.

43.478, -103.609lat, lon

is the official point of origin on the interagency record.

Conditions measured 8.4 miles from the fire: 50°F, air at 70% humidity, a 3 mph wind out of the north.

Six other fires are burning inside the same view. Trust Fire started 86 minutes after this one, 2.9 miles north, and has reached 2 acres. Cold Brook Fire started 1134 minutes before this one, 3.9 miles north, and has reached 0 acres. Woods Fire started 1391 minutes before this one, 3.9 miles north-east, and has reached 0 acres. Tiger Fire started 1347 minutes before this one, 4.8 miles north-east, and has reached 0 acres. Theater Ridge Fire started 1038 minutes before this one, 5.5 miles north-east, and has reached 0 acres. Blue Fire started 1167 minutes before this one, 7.1 miles north, 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 six times so far. The thickest of it was thin between 2:10pm and 5:30pm 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. Sunday 6 September

    First reported

  2. Sunday 6 September

    0 acres on record

    0 ac
  3. Sunday 6 September

    Grew to 0 acres

    0 ac