Dawes County, Nebraska
Burning 9.7 miles south of Chadron and 13.9 miles south-east of Whitney, since Tuesday 25 August.
0
acres burned so far
50
days burning so far
—
no share of the perimeter reported held yet
The official record as of 10:09am today
The Norwesca Fire is on the interagency wildfire record at 0 acres in Dawes County, Nebraska. 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.
Natural
is the cause on the official record.
50 days
on record — first written down on Tuesday 25 August at 4:47pm local time, starting at 0 acres.
42.687, -103.017lat, lon
is the official point of origin on the interagency record.
Conditions measured 3.4 miles from the fire: 48°F, air at 87% humidity, a 9 mph wind out of the north-west.
Five other fires are burning inside the same view. Bypass Fire started 82 minutes before this one, 2.2 miles east, and has reached 0 acres. Egan Fire started on Monday 7 September, 8.9 miles north-east, and has reached 3 acres. Pine Tree Fire started on Sunday 23 August, 11.8 miles west, and has reached 1 acres. Pine Snag Fire started on Sunday 23 August, 11.8 miles west, and has reached 0 acres. Crown Butte Fire started on Sunday 23 August, 14.5 miles west, and has reached 1 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 four times so far. The thickest of it was thin between 6:20am and 9:00am 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.
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.
Tuesday 25 August
First reported
Tuesday 25 August
0 acres on record
0 ac