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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Tuesday 11 August
First reported
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acreage not yet reported
64
days burning so far
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no share of the perimeter reported held yet
The official record as of 10:09am today
The East Rudy Fire is on the interagency wildfire record in Dewey 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.
Undetermined
The cause has not yet been determined.
64 days
on record — first written down on Tuesday 11 August at 9:15pm local time.
44.756, -101.110lat, lon
is the official point of origin on the interagency record.
Six other fires are burning inside the same view. Horse Fire started on Thursday 21 May, 7.3 miles west, and has reached an unrecorded size. Dupree Creek Fire started 75 minutes before this one, 10.1 miles west, and has reached an unrecorded size. Buffalo Fire started on Saturday 25 July, 12.4 miles south-east, and has reached an unrecorded size. Four Corner Fire started on Tuesday 8 September, 13.9 miles south, and has reached 665 acres with 44 people assigned. Larry Fire started on Tuesday 8 September, 13.9 miles south, and has reached 0 acres. South Route 12 Fire started 30 minutes before this one, 14.3 miles west, and has reached an unrecorded size. 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 ten times so far. The thickest of it was moderate between 9:00am and 11:00am local time. The last of those windows closed 113 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.