Fayette Fire
The Fayette Fire burned 4,500 acres in Wyoming, in 1996. It was discovered on October 6, 1996, and contained on October 12, 1996. The cause was recorded as debris and open burning.
- Size
- 4,500 acres
- Discovered
- October 6, 1996
- Contained
- October 12, 1996
- Cause
- Human
Map
The burned area boundary MTBS mapped from Landsat imagery, 5,303 acres. Point of origin as reported, 42.917, -109.792.
The record
- Reported final size
- 4,500 acres
- Burned area mapped by MTBS
- 5,303 acres
- Area inside the final perimeter
- 4,869 acres
- Discovered
- October 6, 1996, 2:00 p.m. local time
- Contained
- October 12, 1996, 6:00 p.m. local time
- Cause
- Human, Debris and open burning
- State
- Wyoming
- Land ownership at origin
- Forest Service
- Reporting unit
- Bridger-Teton National Forest
- Agency
- Forest Service
- Unit
- WYBTF
- Incident type
- Wildfire
- MTBS fire identifier
- WY4290110976219961006
- MTBS assessment
- Extended
- Fire occurrence record
- FS-317006
- Perimeter map method
- Remote Sensing Data - National Level
- 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 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 |
| 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 |
| Nbrokenbac Fire | 3,741 | Aug 25, 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.