Event narrative (NOAA)
The cause of this fire was unknown. Fire was located just northeast of Slapout, OK and burned 26,020 acres and continued to remain active through March 8th. Estimated costs of the fire from the Forestry Service were around $323,000. Damage estimations from the fire from the OSU Extension Service included the loss of 504 head of cattle, 35,000 bales of hay, 3 occupied houses and 1 unoccupied house, 12 barns and 1 solar array. This is approximately 2.3% of pastureland in the county that was temporarily removed from production, and 7.4% of the county cow inventory that either perished in the fire or was subsequently culled or euthanized due to injury. Estimated losses based on this information sum to a total of $8.73 million in damages, or $335 per burned acre.||Estimated cattle industry loss
Other notable wildfire events in Oklahoma
Source: NOAA/NCEI Storm Events Database. Deaths and injuries are those NOAA classifies as direct. Damage is the reporting office's estimate at the time and is not inflation-adjusted. This is a catalogue record, not a forecast.