Awatchfire

Converse County, Wyoming

Rock Mountain Fire

Burning 2.4 miles south of Esterbrook and 18.1 miles north-west of El Rancho, since Thursday 27 August.

Map of Wyoming. The Rock Mountain Fire burns 91 miles from Cheyenne, and 91 miles from the state capital, Cheyenne.
The fire sits 91 miles from Cheyenne.

0

acres burned so far

48

days burning so far

—

no share of the perimeter reported held yet

The official record as of 10:09am today

The Rock Mountain Fire is on the interagency wildfire record at 0 acres in Converse 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.

48 days

on record — first written down on Thursday 27 August at 5:47pm local time, starting at 0 acres.

42.374, -105.373lat, lon

is the official point of origin on the interagency record.

Conditions measured 3.0 miles from the fire: 36°F, air at 100% humidity, a 9 mph wind out of the north.

Three other fires are burning inside the same view. Binford Fire started 309 minutes before this one, 3.8 miles east, and has reached 3 acres. Reid Creek Fire started 176 minutes before this one, 6.2 miles west, and has reached 0 acres. Bridge Draw Fire started on Sunday 30 August, 15.4 miles south-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 three 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.

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 27 August

    First reported

  2. Friday 28 August

    0 acres on record

    0 ac