Awatchfire

Fremont County, Wyoming

Big Sand Draw Fire

Burning 19.4 miles south-east of Riverton and 20.0 miles south-east of Arapahoe, since Thursday 27 August.

Map of Wyoming. The Big Sand Draw Fire burns 208 miles from Cheyenne, and 208 miles from the state capital, Cheyenne.
The fire sits 208 miles from Cheyenne.

0

acres burned so far

48

days burning so far

—

no share of the perimeter reported held yet

The official record as of 10:09am today

The Big Sand Draw Fire is on the interagency wildfire record at 0 acres in Fremont 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.

48 days

on record — first written down on Thursday 27 August at 5:21pm local time, starting at 1 acres.

Type 5 Incident

is the incident-management level assigned to it.

42.795, -108.165lat, lon

is the official point of origin on the interagency record.

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. Thursday 27 August

    First reported at 1 acres

    1 ac
  2. Thursday 27 August

    1 acres on record

    1 ac
  3. Friday 28 August

    Revised to 0 acres

    0 ac