Awatchfire

Washakie County, Wyoming

Cabin Springs Fire

Burning 7.4 miles east of Ten Sleep and 20.8 miles south-east of Hyattville, since Wednesday 23 September.

Map of Wyoming. The Cabin Springs Fire burns 239 miles from Cheyenne, and 239 miles from the state capital, Cheyenne.
The fire sits 239 miles from Cheyenne.

149

acres burned so far

21

days burning so far

100%

of the perimeter held

The picture as of 10:09am today

The Cabin Springs Fire is still listed as active, and has not been looked at lately. Nothing has given off fresh heat for 511 hours.

No fresh look at this fire for 511 hours. Everything on the map below was seen before then.

Shaded relief map of the Cabin Springs Fire. Amber flames mark every place that gave off heat in the last day; the shading is the shape of the ground.
Heat in the last day Higher ground pale, valleys dark

511hours

since anything was last seen giving off heat — about 3:35am on Thursday, local time.

99% less

energy in the last 6 hours of the record than in the 6 before them — the fire was cooler when it was last seen.

7.3miles

is how close the heat has come to Ten Sleep at any point in the record. In the last day the nearest heat has been None miles from it, and the closest this fire has come to Hyattville is 20.7 miles, None in the last day.

0.8miles

is the furthest any heat has been seen from the point on the official record — the width of the ground involved so far.

Smoke has been recorded lying over this ground five times so far. The thickest of it was thin between 2:10pm and 5:30pm local time. The last of those windows closed 140 hours ago, so what is overhead now is not known.

Where the heat is

No cluster large enough to call a separate front. The heat is in one piece.

Conditions measured 20.0 miles from the fire: 40°F, air at 87% humidity, a 6 mph wind out of the south-west.

How it got here

Two days of record on a day-23 fire

The record here begins at 3:18pm on 23 Sep and runs to 3:34am on 24 Sep — 12 hours, 11 readings of heat. The fire is on day 23, so the first 21 days are missing: nothing showed up from above until the fire was large enough and the sky over it clear enough for it to be seen. There is no long arc to draw yet. What follows is what has actually happened.

Animated map of the Cabin Springs Fire across the whole record, with a time bar along the bottom showing energy released and the local date.
The whole record, 19 frames at 1 hour a frame. The bar along the bottom is energy released; the moving line is the clock.

Hour by hour local time

Wed 3:00pmThu 3:00am

Each bar is one hour of local time, sized by how much energy the fire gave off in it. This fire is too young for a day-against-day comparison to say anything, so the hours are shown instead.

Day by day 2 days of record

  1. Map for Wed 23 Sep: flames mark every place that gave off heat that day.

    Wed23 Sep

    First readings

    • 10 heat readings — the most of any day
    • Heat from 3:18pm to 4:27pm
    • Spread 0.8 miles from the recorded point at its furthest
    • Burning through the afternoon
  2. Map for Thu 24 Sep: flames mark every place that gave off heat that day.

    Thu24 Seplatest

    Cooling off

    • 1 heat readings
    • Energy 100% down on the day before
    • Heat from 3:34am to 3:34am
    • Spread 0.5 miles from the recorded point at its furthest
    • Burning through the pre-dawn

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. Wednesday 23 September

    First reported at 20 acres

    20 ac

  2. Wednesday 23 September

    20 acres on record

    20 ac

  3. Wednesday 23 September

    Grew to 40 acres

    40 ac

  4. Thursday 24 September

    Grew to 130 acres

    130 ac

  5. Thursday 24 September

    Grew to 149 acres — containment 0%, 118 personnel

    149 ac · 0% held · 118 crew

  6. Friday 25 September

    Containment 34% — 99 personnel

    149 ac · 34% held · 99 crew

  7. Saturday 26 September

    Containment 92% — 53 personnel

    149 ac · 92% held · 53 crew

  8. Tuesday 29 September

    Containment 100% — 11 personnel

    149 ac · 100% held · 11 crew

100% of the perimeter is being reported as held. 11 people are assigned to it. It has grown from 20 acres when it was first written down to 149 now. Nothing has looked at it for 511 hours, and the record still lists it as active.