Awatchfire

Oglala Lakota County, South Dakota

Deckert Fire

Burning 5.5 miles east of Porcupine and 10.3 miles north-east of Wounded Knee, since Tuesday 11 August.

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

191

acres burned so far

64

days burning so far

—

no share of the perimeter reported held yet

The official record as of 10:09am today

The Deckert Fire is on the interagency wildfire record at 191 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.

64 days

on record — first written down on Tuesday 11 August at 5:30pm local time, starting at 100 acres.

43.252, -102.229lat, lon

is the official point of origin on the interagency record.

Conditions measured 3.4 miles from the fire: 47°F, air at 81% humidity, a 22 mph wind out of the north.

Six other fires are burning inside the same view. Phahin Fire started 155 minutes after this one, 4.2 miles north-west, and has reached 26 acres. Brooks Fire started on Saturday 22 August, 5.3 miles west, and has reached 15 acres. Needles Fire started on Friday 4 September, 5.5 miles north-west, and has reached 6,018 acres with 14 people assigned. Event Fire started on Friday 4 September, 6.0 miles north-west, and has reached 230 acres. Candle Fire started 1050 minutes after this one, 6.2 miles north-west, and has reached 64 acres. Rancher Fire started 45 minutes after this one, 7.2 miles north-west, and has reached 504 acres with 2 people assigned. 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. Tuesday 11 August

    First reported at 100 acres

    100 ac

  2. Sunday 23 August

    191 acres on record

    191 ac