Wildfires of 1996

Unnamed Fire

1996Hot Springs County, WyomingWildfire

The Unnamed Fire burned 1,000 acres in Hot Springs County, Wyoming, in 1996. It was discovered on October 11, 1996.

Size
1,000 acres
Discovered
October 11, 1996
Cause
Undetermined

Map

No perimeter survives for this fire; the map shows its reported point of origin. Point of origin as reported, 43.654, -107.725.

The record

Reported final size
1,000 acres
Discovered
October 11, 1996
Cause
Undetermined
State
Wyoming
County
Hot Springs County
Reporting unit
Wyoming State Forestry
Agency
State or local agency
Incident type
Wildfire
Fire occurrence record
SCHMIDT_56289696

Other large fires in Wyoming in 199612

FireAcresStartCause
Boner Fire53,930Sep 4, 1996Natural
Eblack Mtn Fire48,844Aug 25, 1996Natural
Bates Fire38,858Aug 25, 1996Natural
Geary D. 2 Fire14,700Aug 2, 1996Natural
Henrys Fire9,500Sep 4, 1996Natural
Cole Creek Fire9,290Sep 30, 1996Human
Willow Fire4,793Aug 25, 1996Natural
Fayette Fire4,500Oct 6, 1996Human
Coyote Fire4,421
Spring Cr Fire4,000Aug 13, 1996Human
Unnamed Fire3,932Aug 8, 1996
Murphy Ridge Fire3,776Aug 5, 1996Natural

Every fire of 1996 Wyoming fire history

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Sources

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.