Awatchfire

Fremont County, Wyoming

Telephone Fire

Burning 11.5 miles north-east of Dubois and 29.7 miles north-west of Crowheart, since Thursday 10 September.

Map of Wyoming. The Telephone Fire burns 301 miles from Cheyenne, and 301 miles from the state capital, Cheyenne.
The fire sits 301 miles from Cheyenne.

20

acres burned so far

34

days burning so far

—

no share of the perimeter reported held yet

The picture as of 10:09am today

The Telephone Fire is still listed as active, and has not been looked at lately. Nothing has given off fresh heat for 822 hours.

No fresh look at this fire for 822 hours. Everything on the map below was seen before then.

Shaded relief map of the Telephone 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 Where another fire is recorded

822hours

since anything was last seen giving off heat — about 4:40am on Friday, local time.

32% more

energy in the last 6 hours of the record than in the 6 before them — the fire was hotter when it was last seen.

11.2miles

is how close the heat has come to Dubois 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 Crowheart is 29.2 miles, None in the last day.

0.6miles

is the furthest any heat has been seen from the point on the official record — the width of the ground involved so far.

Another fire is burning inside the same view. Bear Fire started on Friday 21 August, 4.7 miles east, and has reached 1 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 once so far. The thickest of it was thin between 11:00am and 2:00pm local time. The last of those windows closed 140 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 3.0 miles from the fire: 42°F, air at 61% humidity, a 7 mph wind out of the south-west.

How it got here

Two days of record on a day-36 fire

The record here begins at 2:40pm on 10 Sep and runs to 4:38am on 11 Sep — 14 hours, 10 readings of heat. The fire is on day 36, so the first 34 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 Telephone Fire across the whole record, with a time bar along the bottom showing energy released and the local date.
The whole record, 21 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

Thu 2:00pmFri 4:00am

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 2 days of record

  1. Map for Thu 10 Sep: flames mark every place that gave off heat that day.

    Thu10 Sep

    First readings

    • 2 heat readings
    • Heat from 2:40pm to 9:55pm
    • Spread 0.5 miles from the recorded point at its furthest
    • Burning through the afternoon and night
  2. Map for Fri 11 Sep: flames mark every place that gave off heat that day.

    Fri11 Seplatest

    Today so far

    • 8 heat readings — the most of any day
    • Energy 26% down on the day before
    • Heat from 2:58am to 4:38am
    • Spread 0.6 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. Thursday 10 September

    First reported at 1 acres

    1 ac

  2. Thursday 10 September

    1 acres on record

    1 ac

  3. Thursday 10 September

    Grew to 5 acres

    5 ac

  4. Thursday 10 September

    Grew to 10 acres

    10 ac

  5. Friday 11 September

    Grew to 30 acres

    30 ac

  6. Saturday 12 September

    Revised to 23 acres

    23 ac

  7. Saturday 19 September

    Revised to 20 acres

    20 ac

No containment figure has been reported for it yet. No crew count has been published for it yet. It has grown from 1 acres when it was first written down to 20 now. Nothing has looked at it for 822 hours, and the record still lists it as active.