Awatchfire

Niobrara County, Wyoming

Swanski Fire

Burning 15.8 miles north of Van Tassell and 16.7 miles north-east of Lusk, since Tuesday 25 August.

Map of Wyoming. The Swanski Fire burns 125 miles from Cheyenne, and 125 miles from the state capital, Cheyenne.
The fire sits 125 miles from Cheyenne.

0

acres burned so far

51

days burning so far

—

no share of the perimeter reported held yet

The picture as of 10:09am today

The Swanski Fire is still listed as active, and has not been looked at lately. Nothing has given off fresh heat for 1231 hours.

No fresh look at this fire for 1231 hours. Everything on the map below was seen before then.

Shaded relief map of the Swanski 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

1231hours

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

0readings

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

15.8miles

is how close the heat has come to Van Tassell 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 Lusk is 16.7 miles, None in the last day.

0.1miles

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 six 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.

Where the heat is

No cluster large enough to call a separate front. The heat is in one piece.

Conditions measured 23.7 miles from the fire: 53°F, air at 59% humidity, a 22 mph wind out of the north-west.

How it got here

One day of record on a day-52 fire

The record here begins at 2:56am on 25 Aug and runs to 3:15am on 25 Aug — 0 hours, 3 readings of heat. The fire is on day 52, so the first 51 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 Swanski Fire across the whole record, with a time bar along the bottom showing energy released and the local date.
The whole record, 8 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

Tue 2:00amTue 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 Tue 25 Aug: flames mark every place that gave off heat that day.

    Tue25 Auglatest

    First readings

    • 3 heat readings
    • Heat from 2:56am to 3:15am
    • Spread 0.1 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. Tuesday 25 August

    First reported

  2. Tuesday 25 August

    0 acres on record

    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 1231 hours, and the record still lists it as active.