Oglala Lakota County, South Dakota
Burning 19.2 miles north-west of Kyle and 23.6 miles west of Interior, since Tuesday 11 August.
1,297
acres burned so far — about 2 square miles
64
days burning so far
100%
of the perimeter held
The official record as of 10:09am today
The XU Hill Fire is on the interagency wildfire record at 1,297 acres in Oglala Lakota 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.
6people
are assigned to the fire on the latest interagency record.
Natural
is the cause on the official record.
64 days
on record — first written down on Tuesday 11 August at 4:28pm local time.
Type 4 Incident
is the incident-management level assigned to it.
43.631, -102.437lat, lon
is the official point of origin on the interagency record.
Conditions measured 19.9 miles from the fire: 52°F, air at 52% humidity, a 33 mph wind out of the north-west.
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.
Tuesday 11 August
First reported
Sunday 23 August
1,297 acres on record — 95% contained, 6 personnel assigned
1,297 ac · 95% held · 6 crewThursday 27 August
Containment 100%
1,297 ac · 100% held · 6 crew