Awatchfire

Campbell County, Wyoming

Dust Cutter Fire

Burning 8.0 miles north-east of Sleepy Hollow and 10.5 miles east of Gillette, since Wednesday 26 August.

Map of Wyoming. The Dust Cutter Fire burns 220 miles from Cheyenne, and 220 miles from the state capital, Cheyenne.
The fire sits 220 miles from Cheyenne.

0

acres burned so far

49

days burning so far

—

no share of the perimeter reported held yet

The official record as of 10:09am today

The Dust Cutter Fire is on the interagency wildfire record at 0 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.

49 days

on record — first written down on Wednesday 26 August at 4:23pm local time, starting at 0 acres.

Type 5 Incident

is the incident-management level assigned to it.

44.286, -105.287lat, lon

is the official point of origin on the interagency record.

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.

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 26 August

    First reported

  2. Wednesday 26 August

    0 acres on record

    0 ac