Awatchfire

Park County, Wyoming

Monk Fire

Burning 15.9 miles north-west of Meeteetse and 18.2 miles south of Cody, since Tuesday 29 September.

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

41

acres burned so far

15

days burning so far

—

no share of the perimeter reported held yet

The picture as of 10:09am today

The Monk Fire is still listed as active, and has not been looked at lately. Nothing has given off fresh heat for 380 hours.

No fresh look at this fire for 380 hours. Everything on the map below was seen before then.

Shaded relief map of the Monk 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

380hours

since anything was last seen giving off heat — about 2:25pm on Tuesday, local time.

45% less

energy in the last 0.5 hours of the record than in the 0.5 before them — the fire was cooler when it was last seen.

16.2miles

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 17.9 miles, None in the last day.

0.5miles

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 140 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 12.7 miles from the fire: 45°F, air at 45% humidity, a 15 mph wind out of the north-west.

How it got here

One day of record on a day-17 fire

The record here begins at 1:45pm on 29 Sep and runs to 2:27pm on 29 Sep — 1 hours, 2 readings of heat. The fire is on day 17, so the first 16 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 Monk Fire across the whole record, with a time bar along the bottom showing energy released and the local date.
The whole record, 8 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

Tue 1:00pmTue 2:00pm

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 Tue 29 Sep: flames mark every place that gave off heat that day.

    Tue29 Seplatest

    First readings

    • 2 heat readings
    • Heat from 1:45pm to 2:27pm
    • Spread 0.5 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. Tuesday 29 September

    First reported at 20 acres

    20 ac

  2. Tuesday 29 September

    41 acres on record

    41 ac

No containment figure has been reported for it yet. No crew count has been published for it yet. It has grown from 20 acres when it was first written down to 41 now. Nothing has looked at it for 380 hours, and the record still lists it as active.