Campbell County, Wyoming
Burning 16.2 miles south-east of Arvada and 24.7 miles south-east of Clearmont, since Monday 7 September.
184
acres burned so far
37
days burning so far
—
no share of the perimeter reported held yet
The official record as of 10:09am today
The Broken Country Fire is on the interagency wildfire record at 184 acres in Campbell 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.
Undetermined
The cause has not yet been determined.
37 days
on record — first written down on Monday 7 September at 4:21pm local time, starting at 0 acres.
Type 4 Incident
is the incident-management level assigned to it.
44.483, -105.930lat, lon
is the official point of origin on the interagency record.
Conditions measured 4.4 miles from the fire: 42°F, air at 74% humidity, a 20 mph wind out of the north-west.
Six other fires are burning inside the same view. School House 1 Fire started on Thursday 3 September, 0.3 miles north-west, and has reached 0 acres. Kinney Divide Fire started on Thursday 3 September, 0.8 miles north-west, and has reached 20 acres. School House Coal Seam Fire started on Thursday 3 September, 0.8 miles north-west, and has reached 0 acres. School House 3 Fire started on Thursday 3 September, 1.2 miles south-west, and has reached 0 acres. Broken Jaw Fire started on Wednesday 2 September, 1.3 miles south-west, and has reached 226 acres. School House 2 Fire started on Thursday 3 September, 1.3 miles south, and has reached 0 acres. Their heat is counted against them, not against this fire, and the pale rings on the map mark where they are recorded.
Smoke has been recorded lying over this ground seven times so far. The thickest of it was thin between 2:10pm and 5:30pm local time. The last of those windows closed 121 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.
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.
Monday 7 September
First reported
Monday 7 September
130 acres on record
130 acMonday 7 September
Grew to 184 acres
184 ac