Wildfires of 1988

Siesmic Fire

1988WyomingWildfire

The Siesmic Fire burned 2,965 acres in Wyoming, in 1988. MTBS dates its ignition to July 22, 1988.

Size
2,965 acres
Ignition
July 22, 1988

Map

The burned area boundary MTBS mapped from Landsat imagery, 2,965 acres. MTBS's point for the fire, 41.859, -110.648.

The record

Burned area mapped by MTBS
2,965 acres
Ignition (MTBS)
July 22, 1988
State
Wyoming
Incident type
Wildfire
MTBS fire identifier
WY4185911064819880722
MTBS assessment
Initial

Other large fires in Wyoming in 198812

FireAcresStartCause
North Fork Fire563,089Jul 22, 1988
Clovermist Fire303,221Jul 9, 1988
Mink Fire135,337Jul 11, 1988
Huck Fire123,340Aug 20, 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

Every fire of 1988 Wyoming fire history

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Sources

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.