Jackson County, South Dakota
Burning 11.0 miles north-east of Kyle and 12.2 miles south of Interior, since Monday 27 July.
10,944
acres burned so far — about 17 square miles
79
days burning so far
100%
of the perimeter held
The official record as of 10:09am today
The Potato Creek Fire is on the interagency wildfire record at 10,944 acres in Jackson 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.
32people
are assigned to the fire on the latest interagency record.
Natural
is the cause on the official record.
79 days
on record — first written down on Monday 27 July at 1:21pm local time.
Type 3 Incident
is the incident-management level assigned to it.
43.563, -102.073lat, lon
is the official point of origin on the interagency record.
Conditions measured 21.4 miles from the fire: 49°F, air at 59% humidity, a 25 mph wind out of the north.
Smoke has been recorded lying over this ground eight times so far. The thickest of it was moderate between 6:00am and 9:00am 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.
Monday 27 July
First reported
Sunday 23 August
10,944 acres on record — 100% contained, 32 personnel assigned
10,944 ac · 100% held · 32 crew