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 25 July
First reported
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acreage not yet reported
82
days burning so far
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no share of the perimeter reported held yet
The official record as of 3:20am today
The Buffalo Fire is on the interagency wildfire record in Stanley 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.
Undetermined
The cause has not yet been determined.
82 days
on record — first written down on Saturday 25 July at 12:15pm local time.
44.598, -100.991lat, lon
is the official point of origin on the interagency record.
Four other fires are burning inside the same view. Four Corner Fire started on Tuesday 8 September, 3.4 miles south-west, and has reached 665 acres with 44 people assigned. Larry Fire started on Tuesday 8 September, 3.4 miles south-west, and has reached 0 acres. Woolley Fire started on Tuesday 11 August, 3.9 miles east, and has reached 123 acres. East Rudy Fire started on Tuesday 11 August, 12.4 miles north-west, 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 nine times so far. The thickest of it was moderate between 9:00am and 11:00am local time. The last of those windows closed 130 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.