Awatchfire

Platte County, Wyoming

Horsetooth Fire

Burning 11.1 miles east of Glendo and 14.2 miles north of Hartville, since Saturday 25 July.

Map of Wyoming. The Horsetooth Fire burns 96 miles from Cheyenne, and 96 miles from the state capital, Cheyenne.
The fire sits 96 miles from Cheyenne.

168

acres burned so far

34

days burning so far

100%

of the perimeter held

The official record as of 10:37pm today

The Horsetooth Fire is on the interagency wildfire record at 168 acres in Platte 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.

100% held

100% of the perimeter is being reported as held.

3people

are assigned to the fire on the latest interagency record.

Undetermined

The cause has not yet been determined.

34 days

on record — first written down on Saturday 25 July at 4:57pm local time, starting at 20 acres.

Type 4 Incident

is the incident-management level assigned to it.

42.524, -104.809lat, lon

is the official point of origin on the interagency record.

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.