Converse County, Wyoming
Burning 22.0 miles south of Glenrock and 23.6 miles south of Meadow Acres, since Monday 14 September.
6
acres burned so far
30
days burning so far
—
no share of the perimeter reported held yet
The official record as of 10:09am today
The Root Fire is on the interagency wildfire record at 6 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.
Natural
is the cause on the official record.
30 days
on record — first written down on Monday 14 September at 5:37pm local time, starting at 0 acres.
Type 4 Incident
is the incident-management level assigned to it.
42.541, -105.926lat, lon
is the official point of origin on the interagency record.
Conditions measured 24.4 miles from the fire: 32°F, air at 92% humidity, a 4 mph wind out of the north.
Another fire is burning inside the same view. Standing Creek Fire started on Thursday 27 August, 7.8 miles east, and has reached 12 acres. Its heat is counted against it, not against this fire, and the pale ring on the map marks where it is 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.
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.
Monday 14 September
First reported
Monday 14 September
0 acres on record
0 acTuesday 15 September
Grew to 5 acres
5 acTuesday 15 September
Grew to 6 acres
6 ac