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Wildfires in South Dakota
Detected · VIIRS 375 m · Suomi NPP, NOAA-20, NOAA-21 · last 24 hours · updated 2026-10-12 12:28 UTC
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Fire history, 2012–2025
Detected · VIIRS S-NPP 375 m · 0.01° cells (~1.1 km) · complete years 2012–2025 · built 2026-09-23
Between 2012 and 2025, VIIRS detected fire in 8,640 km² of South Dakota at least once. In an average year it detected fire in 697 km², ranking 34th of 51 regions of United States.
Year by year
Detected area per year, km². Area of 0.01° cells with at least one detection in the year.
The busiest year was 2012, with 1,490 km² detected; the quietest was 2019, with 276 km². The 2021–2025 average is 28% lower than the 2012–2016 average.
Through the year
Share of all fire-days 2012–2025 by month. A fire-day is one cell with a detection on one day.
March, April and May together hold 38% of the fire-days in the record. The single busiest day was 13 December 2017, with detections in 202 cells.
Ground that burns again
Of the 8,640 km² with at least one detection, 1.7% had detections in three or more different years.
| Years with a detection | km² | Share |
|---|---|---|
| 1 year | 7,800 | 90% |
| 2 years | 694 | 8.0% |
| 3 to 5 years | 131 | 1.5% |
| 6 to 10 years | 12 | 0.1% |
| 11 years or more | 3.6 | 0.0% |
The half-degree square with the most fire-days is centred at 44.25, -103.25 and holds 10% of the region's fire-days.
The figures
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| Year | Detected km² | Fire-days |
|---|---|---|
| 2012 | 1,490 | 1,870 |
| 2013 | 522 | 697 |
| 2014 | 645 | 834 |
| 2015 | 726 | 950 |
| 2016 | 859 | 1,109 |
| 2017 | 935 | 1,227 |
| 2018 | 499 | 722 |
| 2019 | 276 | 388 |
| 2020 | 757 | 951 |
| 2021 | 748 | 945 |
| 2022 | 587 | 761 |
| 2023 | 550 | 762 |
| 2024 | 524 | 725 |
| 2025 | 637 | 851 |
Other regions of United States
- Texas13,010 km² in an average year
- Georgia10,210 km² in an average year
- California9,720 km² in an average year
- Florida8,510 km² in an average year
- Kansas6,780 km² in an average year
- Oklahoma6,770 km² in an average year
- How these figures are madeDetected area, cells, and the single-satellite record.
Detected area counts every 0.01° cell with at least one VIIRS detection, so a small fire counts as a whole cell and a fire missed by cloud or between passes is absent. Borders: Natural Earth 1:10m. 2012 begins on 20 January.