Row Fire
The Row Fire burned 1,077 acres in Wyoming, in 1994. It was discovered on August 28, 1994, and contained on September 3, 1994. The cause was recorded as natural.
- Size
- 1,077 acres
- Discovered
- August 28, 1994
- Contained
- September 3, 1994
- Cause
- Natural
Map
The burned area boundary MTBS mapped from Landsat imagery, 3,498 acres. Point of origin as reported, 43.670, -110.658.
The record
- Reported final size
- 1,077 acres
- Burned area mapped by MTBS
- 3,498 acres
- Area inside the final perimeter
- 3,430 acres
- Discovered
- August 28, 1994, 5:35 p.m. local time
- Contained
- September 3, 1994, 6:00 p.m. local time
- Cause
- Natural
- State
- Wyoming
- Land ownership at origin
- Forest Service
- Reporting unit
- Bridger-Teton National Forest
- Agency
- Forest Service
- Unit
- WYGTP
- Incident type
- Wildfire
- Unique fire identifier
- 1994-WYGTP-009429
- MTBS fire identifier
- WY4368111062419940828
- MTBS assessment
- Initial
- Fire occurrence record
- FS-293121
- Perimeter map method
- Remote Sensing Data - National Level
- Perimeter records
- 2 on file for this fire; the largest is shown
- Note on the perimeter
- Burn severity
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 199412
| Fire | Acres | Start | Cause |
|---|---|---|---|
| Barrel Spr Fire | 13,400 | Aug 22, 1994 | Natural |
| Robinson Fire | 8,482 | Sep 9, 1994 | Natural |
| Peterson-Elliott Fire | 7,150 | Aug 16, 1994 | Natural |
| Yellowstone Complex (Tern) Fire | 4,728 | Aug 6, 1994 | Natural |
| Squaw Mtn Fire | 3,630 | Jun 30, 1994 | Natural |
| Yellowstone Complex (Raven) Fire | 3,000 | Aug 12, 1994 | Natural |
| Deckard Fire | 2,200 | Sep 1, 1994 | Natural |
| Substation Fire | 1,784 | Aug 22, 1994 | Natural |
| Brome Fire | 1,665 | Aug 6, 1994 | Natural |
| 17 Mile 6 Fire | 1,344 | Jul 5, 1994 | Natural |
| Unnamed Fire | 1,280 | Jul 4, 1994 | |
| Unnamed Fire | 670 | Sep 10, 1994 | Natural |
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. 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.