Awatchfire

Campbell County, Wyoming

Erickson Draw Fire

Burning 23.9 miles west of Gillette and 24.5 miles south of Arvada, since Monday 14 September.

Map of Wyoming. The Erickson Draw Fire burns 229 miles from Cheyenne, and 229 miles from the state capital, Cheyenne.
The fire sits 229 miles from Cheyenne.

30

acres burned so far

30

days burning so far

—

no share of the perimeter reported held yet

The official record as of 10:09am today

The Erickson Draw Fire is on the interagency wildfire record at 30 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.

30 days

on record — first written down on Monday 14 September at 6:17pm local time, starting at 5 acres.

44.328, -105.976lat, lon

is the official point of origin on the interagency record.

Conditions measured 11.5 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. Soft Water Fire started on Thursday 20 August, 6.1 miles north-east, and has reached 110 acres. Montgomery Draw Fire started on Thursday 6 August, 6.5 miles north-east, and has reached 536 acres with 19 people assigned. School House 2 Fire started on Thursday 3 September, 9.6 miles north, and has reached 0 acres. School House 3 Fire started on Thursday 3 September, 9.8 miles north, and has reached 0 acres. Broken Jaw Fire started on Wednesday 2 September, 9.9 miles north, and has reached 226 acres. School House Fire started on Wednesday 2 September, 10.0 miles north, 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.

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 at 5 acres

    5 ac

  2. Monday 14 September

    100 acres on record

    100 ac

  3. Monday 14 September

    Revised to 30 acres

    30 ac