Unnamed Fire
The Unnamed Fire burned 4,000 acres in Sheridan County, Wyoming, in 1992. It was discovered on September 24, 1992. MTBS dates its ignition to August 14, 1992.
- Size
- 4,000 acres
- Discovered
- September 24, 1992
- Cause
- Undetermined
Map
The burned area boundary MTBS mapped from Landsat imagery, 3,659 acres. Point of origin as reported, 44.629, -106.615.
The record
- Reported final size
- 4,000 acres
- Burned area mapped by MTBS
- 3,659 acres
- Discovered
- September 24, 1992
- Ignition (MTBS)
- August 14, 1992
- Cause
- Undetermined
- State
- Wyoming
- County
- Sheridan County
- Reporting unit
- Wyoming State Forestry
- Agency
- State or local agency
- Incident type
- Other fire
- MTBS fire identifier
- WY4462410655519920814
- MTBS assessment
- Initial
- Fire occurrence record
- SCHMIDT_56241692
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 | 1,800 | Feb 27, 1992 | |
| Unnamed Fire | 1,500 | Oct 1, 1992 | |
| Edwards Fire | 1,477 | Mar 27, 1992 | Human |
| 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.