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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Thursday 3 September
First reported
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acreage not yet reported
41
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 PaPa Fire is on the interagency wildfire record in Corson 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.
41 days
on record — first written down on Thursday 3 September at 5:45pm local time.
45.663, -100.533lat, lon
is the official point of origin on the interagency record.
Smoke has been recorded lying over this ground 11 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.