The official record as of 4:20pm today
The Dewey 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.
2 hours
on record — first written down on
Friday 16 October
at 1:56pm local time, starting at 0 acres.
43.616, -103.941lat, lon
is the official point of origin on the interagency record.
Conditions measured 9.9 miles from the fire: 49°F, air at 21% humidity, a 5 mph wind out of the north.
Two other fires are burning inside the same view. Stockade Fire started on Saturday 29 August, 13.5 miles north-west, and has reached 0 acres. Dead Horse Fire started on Monday 24 August, 14.2 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 five times so far. The thickest of it was thin between 6:20am and 9:00am local time. The last of those windows closed 151 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.
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Friday 16 October
First reported
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Friday 16 October
0 acres on record
0 ac
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Friday 16 October
Revised to 0 acres
0 ac