10,944
acres burned so far — about 17 square miles
32
days burning so far
100%
of the perimeter held
The official record as of 10:37pm 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.
32 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.
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.