Awatchfire

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

4

days burning so far

no share of the perimeter reported held yet

The official record as of 10:37pm 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.

4 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.

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.