Awatchfire

Custer County, South Dakota

Martin Fire

Burning 5.0 miles north-west of Buffalo Gap and 9.6 miles north of Maverick Junction, since Thursday 3 September.

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

26

acres burned so far

41

days burning so far

—

no share of the perimeter reported held yet

The official record as of 10:09am today

The Martin Fire is on the interagency wildfire record at 26 acres in Custer 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.

41 days

on record — first written down on Thursday 3 September at 4:45pm local time, starting at 26 acres.

43.547, -103.381lat, lon

is the official point of origin on the interagency record.

Conditions measured 12.6 miles from the fire: 55°F, air at 33% humidity, a 23 mph wind out of the north.

Six other fires are burning inside the same view. Elm Fire started on Tuesday 8 September, 4.4 miles south, and has reached 3 acres. Wind Fire started on Saturday 5 September, 5.1 miles north-west, and has reached 0 acres. Theater Ridge Fire started on Saturday 5 September, 7.5 miles west, and has reached 0 acres. Range Fire started on Saturday 1 August, 7.7 miles south, and has reached 0 acres. Tiger Fire started on Saturday 5 September, 8.9 miles west, and has reached 0 acres. Woods Fire started on Saturday 5 September, 9.6 miles west, and has reached 0 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 six times so far. The thickest of it was thin between 2:10pm and 5:30pm 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.

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. Thursday 3 September

    First reported at 26 acres

    26 ac

  2. Thursday 3 September

    3 acres on record

    3 ac

  3. Friday 4 September

    Grew to 26 acres

    26 ac