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.
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Monday 14 September
First reported
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Monday 14 September
13 acres on record
13 ac
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Monday 14 September
Grew to 14 acres
14 ac