Awatchfire

Oglala Lakota County, South Dakota

Candle Fire

Burning 3.0 miles north of Porcupine and 10.0 miles north-east of Manderson-White Horse Creek, since Wednesday 12 August.

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

64

acres burned so far

16

days burning so far

no share of the perimeter reported held yet

The official record as of 10:37pm today

The Candle Fire is on the interagency wildfire record at 64 acres in Oglala Lakota 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.

16 days

on record — first written down on Wednesday 12 August at 11:00am local time.

43.311, -102.322lat, lon

is the official point of origin on the interagency record.

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.