March 31, 2020

Tin Lode Fire

Reported: 9:08 3/31/2020

Location: Pennington County, 2 miles ESE of Hill City, SD

Size: 0.1 acres

Resources: Local, State, and Federal

Cause: Human, slash pile

Status: Contained 9:45, Controlled 10:00

March 30, 2020

Fairview Fire

Reported: 2:29 pm

Location: in Jackson County, 2 miles NE of Cactus Flats

Size: .10 acre

Resources: Local and Federal 

Cause: lightning
Status: Contained (5:00 pm), Controlled (5:45 pm), Out (6:19 pm)

Hazel Fire

Reported: 1:51 pm

Location: Pennington County, 9 miles WNW of Rapid City, SD

Size: 4.4 acres

Resources: Local, State, and Federal

Cause: human-caused
Status: Contained (4:22 pm), Controlled (5:00 pm)

March 24, 2020

Clover Fire

Reported: 3:08 pm 3/24/2020

Location: Mead County, 5 miles NW or Piedmont, SD

Size: 0.2 acres, controlled

Resources: Federal and local 

Cause: Under Investigation

MM 5 Fire

Reported: 1:35 pm 3/24/2020

Location: Mile marker 5 of Highway 71, approximately 5 miles north of Ardmore, SD

Size: 0.1 acres, controlled

Resources: Federal, State, and Local

Cause: Railroad

March 23, 2020

Teepee Gulch Fire

Reported: 10:23 3/23/2020

Location: Teepee Gulch Road, Pennington County, South Dakota

Size: .01 acres

Resources: Federal resources responded

Cause: under investigation

Buff CA Fire

Reported: 10:49 3/23/2020

Location: Bordeaux Road area, Dawes County, Nebraska

Size: 0.55 acres

Resources: Federal resources responding

Cause: unknown

March 21, 2020

French Creek Fire

Reported:  12:01 pm March 21, 2020
Location:  Lower Spring Creek Road, Custer County
Size: 21 acres 
Resources: Federal, State and local resources responded
Cause:  Under Investigation

March 11, 2020

Whitetail Fire

Reported:  3:00 pm March 11, 2020
Location:  2.5 miles west of Hot Springs, SD
Size: 4.33 acres and contained
Resources: State and local resources responded
Cause:  Under Investigation

Anti-Horse Broadcast Burn Postponed

Custer, SD, March 11, 2020 – The Anti-Horse prescribed burn planned for today, March 11, 2020 on Black Hills National Forest, Hell Canyon Ranger District has been postponed.

Fire officials have been monitoring the forecasted weather in the days leading up to the burn to determine if the conditions would be favorable. Prescribed fire projects require an extensive planning process to determine prescription parameters based off of Subject Matter Experts, local knowledge, as well as accepted scientific and computer based modeling.

“We have been monitoring our fuel moistures and conditions all week to ensure we were within the parameters of the burn plan to meet the objectives. With the spot weather forecast that we requested this morning, our models are showing several elements on the high end of our prescription. Based off of this information as well as the issuance of the Red Flag Warning by the National Weather Service, we have postponed the burn for today” said Josh Morgan, Burn Boss for the project as well as the Fuels Assistant Fire Management Officer for Hell Canyon Ranger District.

Fire officials said they will continue to look for windows in the future to proceed with the burn, but the Anti-Horse project will be postponed for the remainder of this week due to the expected snowfall in the coming days.


For more information on Black Hills National Forest prescribed fire, visit https://www.fs.usda.gov/detail/blackhills/fire/?cid=FSEPRD575179.

-USDA- 

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