Awatchfire

Campbell County, Wyoming

Meadow Gate Fire

Burning 20.6 miles north-west of Gillette and 21.0 miles south-east of Arvada, since Monday 14 September.

Map of Wyoming. The Meadow Gate Fire burns 236 miles from Cheyenne, and 236 miles from the state capital, Cheyenne.
The fire sits 236 miles from Cheyenne.

14

acres burned so far

31

days burning so far

—

no share of the perimeter reported held yet

The official record as of 10:09am today

The Meadow Gate Fire is on the interagency wildfire record at 14 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.

31 days

on record — first written down on Monday 14 September at 8:06am local time, starting at 0 acres.

44.468, -105.814lat, lon

is the official point of origin on the interagency record.

Conditions measured 1.5 miles from the fire: 48°F, air at 50% humidity, a 22 mph wind out of the north-west.

Six other fires are burning inside the same view. Broken Country Fire started on Monday 7 September, 5.8 miles west, and has reached 184 acres. School House 1 Fire started on Thursday 3 September, 6.0 miles west, and has reached 0 acres. School House 2 Fire started on Thursday 3 September, 6.2 miles west, and has reached 0 acres. School House 3 Fire started on Thursday 3 September, 6.3 miles west, and has reached 0 acres. Kinney Divide Fire started on Thursday 3 September, 6.5 miles west, and has reached 20 acres. School House Coal Seam Fire started on Thursday 3 September, 6.5 miles west, 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

  2. Monday 14 September

    13 acres on record

    13 ac
  3. Monday 14 September

    Grew to 14 acres

    14 ac