Wildfires of 1988

Huck Fire

1988WyomingWildfire

The Huck Fire burned 123,340 acres in Wyoming, in 1988. MTBS dates its ignition to August 20, 1988.

Size
123,340 acres
Ignition
August 20, 1988

Map

The burned area boundary MTBS mapped from Landsat imagery, 123,340 acres. MTBS's point for the fire, 44.080, -110.462.

The record

Burned area mapped by MTBS
123,340 acres
Area inside the final perimeter
120,297 acres
Ignition (MTBS)
August 20, 1988
State
Wyoming
Agency
National Park Service
Unit
WYGTP
Incident type
Wildfire
Unique fire identifier
1988-WYGTP-000012
MTBS fire identifier
WY4408111047019880820
MTBS assessment
Extended
Perimeter records
3 on file for this fire; the largest is shown
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 198812

FireAcresStartCause
North Fork Fire563,089Jul 22, 1988
Clovermist Fire303,221Jul 9, 1988
Mink Fire135,337Jul 11, 1988
Snake Fire80,363
Hellroaring Fire77,539Aug 15, 1988
Hellroarin Fire49,730
Clover Fire34,013Jul 11, 1988
Shoshone Fire29,919Jun 23, 1988
Fayette Fire29,217Aug 21, 1988
Redshoshone Complex27,433Jun 23, 1988
Red Fire21,322Jul 1, 1988
Fan Fire20,407Jun 25, 1988

Every fire of 1988 Wyoming fire history

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.