Awatchfire

Todd County, South Dakota

Half Moon Fire

Burning 0.4 miles west of St. Francis and 5.1 miles south of Two Strike, since Tuesday 20 October.

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

0

acres burned so far

1

hour burning so far

—

no share of the perimeter reported held yet

The official record as of 9:13pm today

The Half Moon Fire is on the interagency wildfire record at 0 acres in Todd 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.

43 minutes

on record — first written down on Tuesday 20 October at 8:31pm local time.

43.143, -100.912lat, lon

is the official point of origin on the interagency record.

Conditions measured 16.9 miles from the fire: 57°F, air at 57% humidity, a 8 mph wind out of the south-west.

Six other fires are burning inside the same view. 4 Spots Fire started on Friday 21 August, 0.1 miles west, and has reached 0 acres. West Bales Fire started on Thursday 8 October, 0.4 miles south-west, and has reached 0 acres. Camo Hill Fire started on Wednesday 9 September, 0.5 miles east, and has reached 0 acres. Back Yard Fire started on Wednesday 7 October, 3.7 miles north, and has reached 0 acres. Sweet Pine Fire started on Tuesday 6 October, 4.4 miles north, and has reached 0 acres. Toksa 15 Fire started on Saturday 5 September, 4.6 miles north, and has reached 1 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 seven times so far. The thickest of it was thin between 2:00pm and 5:30pm local time. The last of those windows closed 244 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 20 October

    First reported

  2. Tuesday 20 October

    0 acres on record

    0 ac