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 20 October
First reported
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acreage not yet reported
21
hours burning so far
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no share of the perimeter reported held yet
The official record as of 4:07pm today
The Leaf Fire is on the interagency wildfire record in Sioux County, nd. 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.
21 hours
on record — first written down on Tuesday 20 October at 7:00pm local time.
46.094, -100.657lat, lon
is the official point of origin on the interagency record.
Conditions measured 12.6 miles from the fire: 62°F, air at 41% humidity, a 11 mph wind out of the east.
Six other fires are burning inside the same view. Tank Fire started on Tuesday 8 September, 0.2 miles south, and has reached an unrecorded size. 5061 Mule Deer Fire started on Friday 2 October, 0.3 miles west, and has reached an unrecorded size. Net Fire started on Sunday 30 August, 0.3 miles south, and has reached 0 acres. Red Tail Hawk Ave Fire started on Monday 7 September, 0.3 miles west, and has reached an unrecorded size. Stick Fire started on Monday 7 September, 0.3 miles west, and has reached an unrecorded size. Bear Fire started on Tuesday 8 September, 0.3 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 once so far. The thickest of it was thin between 3:00pm and 6:30pm local time. The last of those windows closed 22 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.