Battle Creek Fire
The Battle Creek Fire burned 1,355 acres in Wyoming, in 1999. It was discovered on October 28, 1999, and contained on October 28, 1999. The cause was recorded as human.
- Size
- 1,355 acres
- Discovered
- October 28, 1999
- Contained
- October 28, 1999
- Cause
- Human
Map
The burned area boundary MTBS mapped from Landsat imagery, 1,423 acres. Point of origin as reported, 41.032, -107.189.
The record
- Reported final size
- 1,355 acres
- Burned area mapped by MTBS
- 1,423 acres
- Area inside the final perimeter
- 1,423 acres
- Discovered
- October 28, 1999, 1:00 p.m. local time
- Contained
- October 28, 1999, 11:50 p.m. local time
- Cause
- Human, Undetermined
- 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
- WY4102710720619991028
- MTBS assessment
- Extended
- Fire occurrence record
- FS-354695
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 19996
| Fire | Acres | Start | Cause |
|---|---|---|---|
| Clarkelen Fire | 20,000 | Oct 31, 1999 | Human |
| Walker Fire | 10,015 | Aug 15, 1999 | |
| Antelope Fire | 10,000 | Nov 4, 1999 | Human |
| Turner Fire | 2,000 | Oct 21, 1999 | Human |
| Lower Grass 2 Fire | 1,542 | Oct 9, 1999 | |
| Outlaw Fire | 1,329 | Aug 19, 1999 | 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.