Mink Fire
The Mink Fire burned 135,337 acres in Wyoming, in 1988. MTBS dates its ignition to July 11, 1988.
- Size
- 135,337 acres
- Ignition
- July 11, 1988
Map
The burned area boundary MTBS mapped from Landsat imagery, 135,337 acres. MTBS's point for the fire, 44.138, -110.058.
The record
- Burned area mapped by MTBS
- 135,337 acres
- Area inside the final perimeter
- 144,695 acres
- Ignition (MTBS)
- July 11, 1988
- State
- Wyoming
- Agency
- Forest Service
- Unit
- WYBTF
- Incident type
- Wildfire
- Unique fire identifier
- 1988-WYYNP-000033
- MTBS fire identifier
- WY4412411002019880711
- MTBS assessment
- Extended
- Perimeter records
- 2 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
| Fire | Acres | Start | Cause |
|---|---|---|---|
| North Fork Fire | 563,089 | Jul 22, 1988 | |
| Clovermist Fire | 303,221 | Jul 9, 1988 | |
| Huck Fire | 123,340 | Aug 20, 1988 | |
| Snake Fire | 80,363 | ||
| Hellroaring Fire | 77,539 | Aug 15, 1988 | |
| Hellroarin Fire | 49,730 | ||
| Clover Fire | 34,013 | Jul 11, 1988 | |
| Shoshone Fire | 29,919 | Jun 23, 1988 | |
| Fayette Fire | 29,217 | Aug 21, 1988 | |
| Redshoshone Complex | 27,433 | Jun 23, 1988 | |
| Red Fire | 21,322 | Jul 1, 1988 | |
| Fan Fire | 20,407 | Jun 25, 1988 |
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.