Awatchfire

Johnson County, Wyoming

Foot Creek Fire

Burning 10.8 miles west of Buffalo and 17.6 miles south of Story, since Thursday 5 November.

Map of Wyoming. The Foot Creek Fire burns 246 miles from Cheyenne, and 246 miles from the state capital, Cheyenne.
The fire sits 246 miles from Cheyenne.

100

acres burned so far

6

hours burning so far

—

no share of the perimeter reported held yet

The picture as of 7:11pm today

The Foot Creek Fire is burning. The last heat was seen 4 hours ago.

Shaded relief map of the Foot Creek 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

4hours

since anything was last seen giving off heat — about 2:50pm on Thursday, local time.

4readings

of heat in the last day. There is not yet an earlier stretch of record to compare that against.

9.7miles

is how close the heat has come to Buffalo at any point in the record. In the last day the nearest heat has been 9.7 miles from it, and the closest this fire has come to Story is 16.7 miles, 16.7 in the last day. The two figures are the same because the record is barely a day long: the last day is very nearly all of it.

1.3miles

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

No smoke has been recorded lying over this ground.

Where the heat is

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

Conditions measured 2.6 miles from the fire: 37°F, air at 35% humidity, a 3 mph wind out of the north.

How it got here

One day of record on a day-1 fire

The record here begins at 2:48pm on 5 Nov and runs to 2:48pm on 5 Nov — 0 hours, 4 readings of heat. There is no long arc to draw yet. What follows is what has actually happened.

Animated map of the Foot Creek Fire across the whole record, with a time bar along the bottom showing energy released and the local date.
The whole record, 7 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

Thu 2:00pmThu 2:00pm

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 1 day of record

  1. Map for Thu 5 Nov: flames mark every place that gave off heat that day.

    Thu5 Novlatest

    First readings

    • 4 heat readings
    • Heat from 2:48pm to 2:48pm
    • Spread 1.3 miles from the recorded point at its furthest
    • Burning through the afternoon

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. Thursday 5 November

    First reported

  2. Thursday 5 November

    100 acres on record

    100 ac

No containment figure has been reported for it yet. No crew count has been published for it yet. It has grown from 0 acres when it was first written down to 100 now. Heat was still showing within the last half-day, and the record still lists this fire as active.