Awatchfire

Park County, Wyoming

Rand Creek Fire

Burning 22.5 miles west of Cody and 35.6 miles north-west of Meeteetse, since Saturday 26 September.

Map of Wyoming. The Rand Creek Fire burns 329 miles from Cheyenne, and 329 miles from the state capital, Cheyenne.
The fire sits 329 miles from Cheyenne.

0

acres burned so far

19

days burning so far

—

no share of the perimeter reported held yet

The picture as of 10:09am today

The Rand Creek Fire is still listed as active, and has not been looked at lately. Nothing has given off fresh heat for 463 hours.

No fresh look at this fire for 463 hours. Everything on the map below was seen before then.

Shaded relief map of the Rand Creek 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

463hours

since anything was last seen giving off heat — about 3:15am on Saturday, local time.

0readings

of heat in the last day. There is not yet an earlier stretch of record to compare that against.

22.5miles

is how close the heat has come to Cody 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 Meeteetse is 35.5 miles, None in the last day.

0.0miles

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 16.0 miles from the fire: 33°F, air at 87% humidity, a 1 mph wind out of the north-east.

How it got here

One day of record on a day-20 fire

The record here begins at 3:15am on 26 Sep and runs to 3:15am on 26 Sep — 0 hours, 1 readings of heat. The fire is on day 20, so the first 19 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 Rand Creek Fire across the whole record, with a time bar along the bottom showing energy released and the local date.
The whole record, 7 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

Sat 3:00amSat 3:00am

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 Sat 26 Sep: flames mark every place that gave off heat that day.

    Sat26 Seplatest

    First readings

    • 1 heat readings
    • Heat from 3:15am to 3:15am
    • Spread 0.0 miles from the recorded point at its furthest
    • Burning through the pre-dawn

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. Saturday 26 September

    First reported

  2. Saturday 26 September

    0 acres on record

    0 ac

  3. Saturday 26 September

    Grew to 1 acres

    1 ac

  4. Saturday 26 September

    Revised to 0 acres

    0 ac

No containment figure has been reported for it yet. No crew count has been published for it yet. It has grown from 0 acres when it was first written down to 0 now. Nothing has looked at it for 463 hours, and the record still lists it as active.