Pennington County, South Dakota
Burning 3.5 miles east of Box Elder and 5.5 miles east of Ashland Heights, since Friday 7 August.
97
acres burned so far
68
days burning so far
—
no share of the perimeter reported held yet
The official record as of 10:09am today
The Dry Grass Fire is on the interagency wildfire record at 97 acres in Pennington 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.
Human
is the cause on the official record.
68 days
on record — first written down on Friday 7 August at 5:38pm local time, starting at 0 acres.
Type 4 Incident
is the incident-management level assigned to it.
44.127, -103.014lat, lon
is the official point of origin on the interagency record.
Conditions measured 22.8 miles from the fire: 47°F, air at 48% humidity, a 8 mph wind out of the north.
Smoke has been recorded lying over this ground eight times so far. The thickest of it was moderate between 9:00am and 11:00am 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.
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.
Friday 7 August
First reported
Tuesday 8 September
97 acres on record
97 ac