Awatchfire

Albany County, Wyoming

North Fork Fire

Burning 0.6 miles south-east of Centennial and 8.0 miles north of Albany, since Thursday 3 September.

Map of Wyoming. The North Fork Fire burns 70 miles from Cheyenne, and 70 miles from the state capital, Cheyenne.
The fire sits 70 miles from Cheyenne.

3

acres burned so far

41

days burning so far

—

no share of the perimeter reported held yet

The official record as of 10:09am today

The North Fork Fire is on the interagency wildfire record at 3 acres in Albany 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.

Human

is the cause on the official record.

41 days

on record — first written down on Thursday 3 September at 12:15pm local time, starting at 0 acres.

41.302, -106.127lat, lon

is the official point of origin on the interagency record.

Conditions measured 15.8 miles from the fire: 35°F, air at 76% humidity, a 12 mph wind out of the north-east.

Two other fires are burning inside the same view. Ward Gultch Fire started on Tuesday 6 October, 3.3 miles north, and has reached 0 acres. Rock Fire started on Tuesday 6 October, 7.4 miles north, 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 two times so far. The thickest of it was thin between 6:20am and 9:00am local time. The last of those windows closed 145 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. Thursday 3 September

    First reported

  2. Thursday 3 September

    0 acres on record

    0 ac
  3. Thursday 3 September

    Grew to 3 acres

    3 ac