Awatchfire

Campbell County, Wyoming

Horse Creek Draw Fire

Burning 20.8 miles south-west of Biddle and 31.5 miles north-east of Arvada, since Monday 14 September.

Map of Wyoming. The Horse Creek Draw Fire burns 261 miles from Cheyenne, and 261 miles from the state capital, Cheyenne.
The fire sits 261 miles from Cheyenne.

30

acres burned so far

30

days burning so far

—

no share of the perimeter reported held yet

The picture as of 10:09am today

The Horse Creek Draw Fire is still listed as active, and has not been looked at lately. Nothing has given off fresh heat for 741 hours.

No fresh look at this fire for 741 hours. Everything on the map below was seen before then.

Shaded relief map of the Horse Creek Draw 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 Where another fire is recorded

741hours

since anything was last seen giving off heat — about 1:05pm on Monday, local time.

0readings

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

21.1miles

is how close the heat has come to Biddle 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 Arvada is 31.3 miles, None in the last day.

0.4miles

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

Another fire is burning inside the same view. Box Fire started 64 minutes after this one, 0.0 miles north, and has reached 30 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 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.

Where the heat is

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

Conditions measured 9.3 miles from the fire: 47°F, air at 59% humidity, a 5 mph wind out of the north-west.

How it got here

One day of record on a day-32 fire

The record here begins at 1:06pm on 14 Sep and runs to 1:06pm on 14 Sep — 0 hours, 1 readings of heat. The fire is on day 32, so the first 31 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 Horse Creek Draw 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

Mon 1:00pmMon 1:00pm

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 Mon 14 Sep: flames mark every place that gave off heat that day.

    Mon14 Seplatest

    First readings

    • 1 heat readings
    • Heat from 1:06pm to 1:06pm
    • Spread 0.4 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. Monday 14 September

    First reported at 80 acres

    80 ac

  2. Monday 14 September

    80 acres on record

    80 ac

  3. Monday 14 September

    Revised to 30 acres

    30 ac

No containment figure has been reported for it yet. No crew count has been published for it yet. It has grown from 80 acres when it was first written down to 30 now. Nothing has looked at it for 741 hours, and the record still lists it as active.