Edwards Fire
The Edwards Fire burned 1,477 acres in Wyoming, in 1992. It was discovered on March 27, 1992, and contained on March 27, 1992. The cause was recorded as human.
- Size
- 1,477 acres
- Discovered
- March 27, 1992
- Contained
- March 27, 1992
- Cause
- Human
Map
The burned area boundary MTBS mapped from Landsat imagery, 1,007 acres. Point of origin as reported, 43.608, -105.310.
The record
- Reported final size
- 1,477 acres
- Burned area mapped by MTBS
- 1,007 acres
- Discovered
- March 27, 1992, 12:30 p.m. local time
- Contained
- March 27, 1992, 6:00 p.m. local time
- Cause
- Human, Undetermined
- State
- Wyoming
- Land ownership at origin
- Forest Service
- Reporting unit
- Medicine Bow-Routt National Forests, Thunder Basin National Grassland
- Agency
- Forest Service
- Incident type
- Wildfire
- MTBS fire identifier
- WY4360010530119920327
- MTBS assessment
- Initial
- Fire occurrence record
- FS-258282
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 19924
| Fire | Acres | Start | Cause |
|---|---|---|---|
| Unnamed Fire | 4,000 | Sep 24, 1992 | |
| Unnamed Fire | 1,800 | Feb 27, 1992 | |
| Unnamed Fire | 1,500 | Oct 1, 1992 | |
| Stratton Fire | 1,216 | Sep 22, 1992 | Human |
Nearby
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. Fire reports from Short, Karen C. 2022, Spatial wildfire occurrence data for the United States, 1992-2020 [FPA_FOD_20221014], 6th Edition, Forest Service Research Data Archive, doi.org/10.2737/RDS-2013-0009.6. 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.