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Natrona County, Wyoming

Bates Creek Fire

Burning 9.2 miles south of Bessemer Bend and 11.8 miles south-west of Casper Mountain, since Monday 24 August.

Map of Wyoming. The Bates Creek Fire burns 135 miles from Cheyenne, and 135 miles from the state capital, Cheyenne.
The fire sits 135 miles from Cheyenne.

0

acres burned so far

51

days burning so far

—

no share of the perimeter reported held yet

The official record as of 10:09am today

The Bates Creek Fire is on the interagency wildfire record at 0 acres in Natrona County, Wyoming. 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.

Natural

is the cause on the official record.

51 days

on record — first written down on Monday 24 August at 8:48pm local time, starting at 0 acres.

42.626, -106.480lat, lon

is the official point of origin on the interagency record.

Conditions measured 8.9 miles from the fire: 32°F, air at 99% humidity, a 14 mph wind out of the north.

Another fire is burning inside the same view. County Road 402 Fire started on Monday 14 September, 6.4 miles east, and has reached 0 acres. Its heat is counted against it, not against this fire, and the pale ring on the map marks where it is recorded.

Smoke has been recorded lying over this ground two times so far. The thickest of it was thin between 6:20am and 9:00am local time. The last of those windows closed 145 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.

How the record has moved

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.

  1. Monday 24 August

    First reported

  2. Tuesday 25 August

    0 acres on record

    0 ac