Dunes Fire
The Dunes Fire burned 2,910 acres in Wyoming, in 1993. It was discovered on July 10, 1993, and contained on July 12, 1993. The cause was recorded as natural.
- Size
- 2,910 acres
- Discovered
- July 10, 1993
- Contained
- July 12, 1993
- Cause
- Natural
Map
The burned area boundary MTBS mapped from Landsat imagery, 3,160 acres. Point of origin as reported, 41.433, -107.567.
The record
- Reported final size
- 2,910 acres
- Burned area mapped by MTBS
- 3,160 acres
- Discovered
- July 10, 1993, 5:50 p.m. local time
- Contained
- July 12, 1993, 6:00 p.m. local time
- Cause
- Natural
- State
- Wyoming
- Land ownership at origin
- Bureau of Land Management
- Reporting unit
- Rawlins Field Office
- Agency
- Bureau of Land Management
- Incident type
- Wildfire
- MTBS fire identifier
- WY4142010756119930710
- MTBS assessment
- Initial
- Fire occurrence record
- W-36405
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.
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.