Awatchfire

Johnson County, Wyoming

Taylor Creek Fire

Burning 24.3 miles south-west of Buffalo and 25.1 miles east of Ten Sleep, since Thursday 1 October.

Map of Wyoming. The Taylor Creek Fire burns 228 miles from Cheyenne, and 228 miles from the state capital, Cheyenne.
The fire sits 228 miles from Cheyenne.

0

acres burned so far

13

days burning so far

—

no share of the perimeter reported held yet

The official record as of 10:09am today

The Taylor Creek Fire is on the interagency wildfire record at 0 acres in Johnson 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.

13 days

on record — first written down on Thursday 1 October at 4:27pm local time, starting at 0 acres.

44.027, -106.942lat, lon

is the official point of origin on the interagency record.

Conditions measured 19.5 miles from the fire: 42°F, air at 52% humidity, a 11 mph wind out of the south-east.

Three other fires are burning inside the same view. Poison Fire started on Sunday 23 August, 6.4 miles north-east, and has reached 1 acres. leigh creek sc Fire started on Monday 21 September, 13.6 miles north-west, and has reached 0 acres. Rotisserie Fire started on Saturday 5 September, 14.5 miles north-east, and has reached 1 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 five times so far. The thickest of it was thin between 2:10pm and 5:30pm local time. The last of those windows closed 140 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 1 October

    First reported

  2. Thursday 1 October

    0 acres on record

    0 ac