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Fremont County, Wyoming

Townsend Fire

Burning 14.2 miles south-west of Lander and 16.1 miles north-west of Atlantic City, since Thursday 8 October.

Map of Wyoming. The Townsend Fire burns 238 miles from Cheyenne, and 238 miles from the state capital, Cheyenne.
The fire sits 238 miles from Cheyenne.

0

acres burned so far

6

days burning so far

—

no share of the perimeter reported held yet

The official record as of 10:09am today

The Townsend Fire is on the interagency wildfire record at 0 acres in Fremont 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.

Undetermined

The cause has not yet been determined.

6 days

on record — first written down on Thursday 8 October at 1:20pm local time, starting at 0 acres.

Type 5 Incident

is the incident-management level assigned to it.

42.685, -108.927lat, lon

is the official point of origin on the interagency record.

Conditions measured 17.2 miles from the fire: 47°F, air at 52% humidity, a 12 mph wind out of the south-west.

Another fire is burning inside the same view. Worthen Fire started on Tuesday 25 August, 1.3 miles north-west, and has reached 0 acres. Its heat is counted against it, not against this fire, and the pale ring on the map marks where it is recorded.

No smoke has been recorded lying over this ground.

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 8 October

    First reported

  2. Thursday 8 October

    0 acres on record

    0 ac