Polecat Fire
The Polecat Fire burned 1,086 acres in Wyoming, in 1987. MTBS dates its ignition to August 7, 1987.
- Size
- 1,086 acres
- Ignition
- August 7, 1987
Map
The burned area boundary MTBS mapped from Landsat imagery, 1,086 acres. MTBS's point for the fire, 44.134, -110.698.
The record
- Burned area mapped by MTBS
- 1,086 acres
- Area inside the final perimeter
- 813 acres
- Ignition (MTBS)
- August 7, 1987
- State
- Wyoming
- Agency
- National Park Service
- Unit
- WYYNP
- Incident type
- Wildfire
- Unique fire identifier
- 1987-WYYNP-000020
- MTBS fire identifier
- WY4413411069519870807
- MTBS assessment
- Extended
- Note on the perimeter
- From WFMI
The three sizes are three measurements: the size the agency reported when the fire was out, the burned area MTBS drew from satellite imagery before and after, and the GIS area inside the final perimeter, unburned islands included. They rarely agree exactly.
Other large fires in Wyoming in 19873
| Fire | Acres | Start | Cause |
|---|---|---|---|
| Adams Hill Fire | 2,461 | ||
| Ne Nowlin Fire | 1,630 | Apr 23, 1987 | |
| Truman Fire | 1,613 | Sep 13, 1987 |
Nearby
Sources
Perimeters from the National Interagency Fire Center’s Interagency Fire Perimeter History, compiled from the Forest Service, BLM, BIA, Fish and Wildlife Service, National Park Service, the Alaska Interagency Fire Center and CAL FIRE. Burned areas and ignition dates from Monitoring Trends in Burn Severity (MTBS), a program of the US Geological Survey and the USDA Forest Service. Records before 2014 were joined by this site: a fire report to the burned area its MTBS identifier names, a perimeter to the burned area it lies in when the names or the sizes agree.