Wildcat Fire
The Wildcat Fire burned 1,600 acres in Wyoming, in 1996. It was discovered on August 3, 1996, and contained on August 4, 1996. The cause was recorded as natural.
- Size
- 1,600 acres
- Discovered
- August 3, 1996
- Contained
- August 4, 1996
- Cause
- Natural
Map
The burned area boundary MTBS mapped from Landsat imagery, 6,274 acres. Point of origin as reported, 44.500, -105.617.
The record
- Reported final size
- 1,600 acres
- Burned area mapped by MTBS
- 6,274 acres
- Discovered
- August 3, 1996, 11:59 a.m. local time
- Contained
- August 4, 1996, 9:00 a.m. local time
- Cause
- Natural
- State
- Wyoming
- Land ownership at origin
- Private
- Reporting unit
- Casper Field Office
- Agency
- Bureau of Land Management
- Incident type
- Wildfire
- MTBS fire identifier
- WY4450610560919960803
- MTBS assessment
- Initial
- Fire occurrence record
- W-20621
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
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.