Awatchfire

Crook County, Wyoming

Sandstone Fire

Burning 6.8 miles north-west of Beulah and 13.9 miles west of Belle Fourche, since Monday 14 September.

Map of Wyoming. The Sandstone Fire burns 245 miles from Cheyenne, and 245 miles from the state capital, Cheyenne.
The fire sits 245 miles from Cheyenne.

0

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 Sandstone Fire is on the interagency wildfire record at 0 acres in Crook 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 12:59pm local time, starting at 0 acres.

44.636, -104.139lat, lon

is the official point of origin on the interagency record.

Conditions measured 14.5 miles from the fire: 40°F, air at 69% humidity, a 6 mph wind out of the north-west.

Smoke has been recorded lying over this ground seven times so far. The thickest of it was thin between 2:10pm and 5:30pm 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. Monday 14 September

    First reported

  2. Monday 14 September

    0 acres on record

    0 ac