Dewey 2 Fire
The Dewey 2 Fire burned 4,415 acres in Wyoming, in 1997. It was discovered on August 31, 1997, and contained on September 4, 1997. The cause was recorded as railroad operations and maintenance.
- Size
- 4,415 acres
- Discovered
- August 31, 1997
- Contained
- September 4, 1997
- Cause
- Human
Map
The burned area boundary MTBS mapped from Landsat imagery, 4,377 acres. Point of origin as reported, 43.658, -104.094.
The record
- Reported final size
- 4,415 acres
- Burned area mapped by MTBS
- 4,377 acres
- Area inside the final perimeter
- 4,336 acres
- Discovered
- August 31, 1997, 1:45 p.m. local time
- Contained
- September 4, 1997, 6:00 p.m. local time
- Cause
- Human, Railroad operations and maintenance
- State
- Wyoming
- Land ownership at origin
- Private
- Reporting unit
- Casper Field Office
- Agency
- Forest Service
- Unit
- SDBKF
- Incident type
- Wildfire
- MTBS fire identifier
- WY4366710408519970831
- MTBS assessment
- Extended
- Fire occurrence record
- W-13307
- Perimeter map method
- Digitized From Hardcopy PBS/SEQ
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 19971
| Fire | Acres | Start | Cause |
|---|---|---|---|
| Flaming Der Fire | 982 | Jul 10, 1997 | Human |
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.