Awatchfire

Carbon County, Wyoming

Wilson Gap Fire

Burning 8.1 miles north-west of Elk Mountain and 8.6 miles south of Hanna, since Wednesday 4 November.

Map of Wyoming. The Wilson Gap Fire burns 101 miles from Cheyenne, and 101 miles from the state capital, Cheyenne.
The fire sits 101 miles from Cheyenne.

1

acres burned so far

1

hour burning so far

—

no share of the perimeter reported held yet

The official record as of 3:17pm today

The Wilson Gap Fire is on the interagency wildfire record at 1 acres in Carbon 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.

54 minutes

on record — first written down on Wednesday 4 November at 2:23pm local time, starting at 1 acres.

41.746, -106.550lat, lon

is the official point of origin on the interagency record.

Another fire is burning inside the same view. Cobb Fire started on Friday 2 October, 7.4 miles south-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.

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. Wednesday 4 November

    First reported

  2. Wednesday 4 November

    1 acres on record

    1 ac