Meade County, South Dakota
Burning 28.4 miles east of Newell and 29.1 miles east of Vale, since Saturday 25 July.
510
acres burned so far — about 0.8 square miles
81
days burning so far
100%
of the perimeter held
The official record as of 10:09am today
The Fairpoint Fire is on the interagency wildfire record at 510 acres in Meade 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.
100% held
100% of the perimeter is being reported as held.
42people
are assigned to the fire on the latest interagency record.
Natural
is the cause on the official record.
81 days
on record — first written down on Saturday 25 July at 12:00pm local time.
Type 5 Incident
is the incident-management level assigned to it.
44.764, -102.844lat, lon
is the official point of origin on the interagency record.
Smoke has been recorded lying over this ground nine 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.
Saturday 25 July
First reported
Wednesday 23 September
510 acres on record — 100% contained, 42 personnel assigned
510 ac · 100% held · 42 crew