Awatchfire

Washakie County, Wyoming

Deep Creek Fire

Burning 35.1 miles north-west of Powder River and 36.2 miles south-west of Kaycee, since Monday 14 September.

Map of Wyoming. The Deep Creek Fire burns 208 miles from Cheyenne, and 208 miles from the state capital, Cheyenne.
The fire sits 208 miles from Cheyenne.

1

acres burned so far

31

days burning so far

—

no share of the perimeter reported held yet

The official record as of 3:20am today

The Deep Creek Fire is on the interagency wildfire record at 1 acres in Washakie 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.

31 days

on record — first written down on Monday 14 September at 12:26pm local time, starting at 0 acres.

Type 4 Incident

is the incident-management level assigned to it.

43.506, -107.303lat, lon

is the official point of origin on the interagency record.

Conditions measured 6.0 miles from the fire: 32°F, air at 61% humidity, a 4 mph wind out of the south-west.

Another fire is burning inside the same view. Sv Draw Fire started on Monday 28 September, 11.9 miles north, 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 three times so far. The thickest of it was thin between 6:20am and 9:00am local time. The last of those windows closed 157 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 14 September

    First reported

  2. Monday 14 September

    0 acres on record

    0 ac
  3. Monday 14 September

    Grew to 3 acres

    3 ac
  4. Monday 14 September

    Revised to 1 acres

    1 ac