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.