Awatchfire

Park County, Wyoming

Jack Creek Fire

Burning 25.9 miles west of Meeteetse and 34.7 miles south-west of Cody, since Friday 9 October.

Map of Wyoming. The Jack Creek Fire burns 309 miles from Cheyenne, and 309 miles from the state capital, Cheyenne.
The fire sits 309 miles from Cheyenne.

0

acres burned so far

6

days burning so far

—

no share of the perimeter reported held yet

The picture as of 3:20am today

The Jack Creek Fire is still listed as active, and has not been looked at lately. Nothing has given off fresh heat for 157 hours.

No fresh look at this fire for 157 hours. Everything on the map below was seen before then.

Shaded relief map of the Jack 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

157hours

since anything was last seen giving off heat — about 1:55pm on Friday, local time.

0readings

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

25.7miles

is how close the heat has come to Meeteetse 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 Cody is 34.7 miles, None in the last day.

0.2miles

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

Smoke has been recorded lying over this ground once so far. The thickest of it was thin between 11:00am and 2:00pm local time. The last of those windows closed 157 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.

Nothing close enough to the fire has reported the conditions on the ground.

How it got here

One day of record on a day-8 fire

The record here begins at 1:57pm on 9 Oct and runs to 1:57pm on 9 Oct — 0 hours, 2 readings of heat. The fire is on day 8, so the first 7 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 Jack 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

Fri 1:00pmFri 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 Fri 9 Oct: flames mark every place that gave off heat that day.

    Fri9 Octlatest

    First readings

    • 2 heat readings
    • Heat from 1:57pm to 1:57pm
    • Spread 0.2 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. Friday 9 October

    First reported

  2. Friday 9 October

    0 acres on record

    0 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 0 now. Nothing has looked at it for 157 hours, and the record still lists it as active.