Bear Creek Fire
The Bear Creek Fire burned 3,718 acres in Wyoming, in 1996. It was discovered on August 5, 1996, and contained on August 14, 1996. The cause was recorded as natural.
- Size
- 3,718 acres
- Discovered
- August 5, 1996
- Contained
- August 14, 1996
- Cause
- Natural
Map
The burned area boundary MTBS mapped from Landsat imagery, 3,366 acres. Point of origin as reported, 42.198, -105.467.
The record
- Reported final size
- 3,718 acres
- Burned area mapped by MTBS
- 3,366 acres
- Area inside the final perimeter
- 3,403 acres
- Discovered
- August 5, 1996, 3:00 p.m. local time
- Contained
- August 14, 1996, 6:00 p.m. local time
- Cause
- Natural
- 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
- WY4220810543919960805
- MTBS assessment
- Extended
- Fire occurrence record
- FS-314656
- Perimeter records
- 6 on file for this fire; the largest is shown
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 199612
| Fire | Acres | Start | Cause |
|---|---|---|---|
| Boner Fire | 53,930 | Sep 4, 1996 | Natural |
| Eblack Mtn Fire | 48,844 | Aug 25, 1996 | Natural |
| Bates Fire | 38,858 | Aug 25, 1996 | Natural |
| Geary D. 2 Fire | 14,700 | Aug 2, 1996 | Natural |
| Henrys Fire | 9,500 | Sep 4, 1996 | Natural |
| Cole Creek Fire | 9,290 | Sep 30, 1996 | Human |
| Willow Fire | 4,793 | Aug 25, 1996 | Natural |
| Fayette Fire | 4,500 | Oct 6, 1996 | Human |
| Coyote Fire | 4,421 | ||
| Spring Cr Fire | 4,000 | Aug 13, 1996 | Human |
| Unnamed Fire | 3,932 | Aug 8, 1996 | |
| Murphy Ridge Fire | 3,776 | Aug 5, 1996 | 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.