Wildfires of 2001

Beaver Rim Fire

2001Fremont County, WyomingWildfire

The Beaver Rim Fire burned 1,927 acres in Fremont County, Wyoming, in 2001. It was discovered on July 4, 2001, and contained on July 7, 2001. The cause was recorded as natural.

Size
1,927 acres
Discovered
July 4, 2001
Contained
July 7, 2001
Cause
Natural

Map

The burned area boundary MTBS mapped from Landsat imagery, 2,171 acres. Point of origin as reported, 42.602, -108.463.

The record

Reported final size
1,927 acres
Burned area mapped by MTBS
2,171 acres
Discovered
July 4, 2001, 2:00 p.m. local time
Contained
July 7, 2001, 6:00 p.m. local time
Cause
Natural
State
Wyoming
County
Fremont County
Land ownership at origin
Bureau of Land Management
Reporting unit
Rawlins Field Office
Agency
Bureau of Land Management
Incident type
Wildfire
MTBS fire identifier
WY4260210845320010704
MTBS assessment
Initial
Fire occurrence record
W-101746

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 200112

FireAcresStartCause
Elk Mountain 2 Fire14,990Jul 30, 2001Natural
Leroy Fire5,410Aug 27, 2001Natural
Thunder Ch Fire5,207Jul 28, 2001Natural
Green Knoll Fire4,470Jul 22, 2001Human
Falcon Fire4,019Aug 6, 2001Natural
Kaye Field Fire3,798Jul 30, 2001Natural
Sulphur Fire3,750Aug 15, 2001Natural
Renner Dra Fire2,974Aug 18, 2001Natural
Arthur Fire2,850Jul 29, 2001Natural
Dinwoody Fire2,432Jul 31, 2001Human
Mcfarland Fire1,471Sep 5, 2001Natural
Casper Cre Fire1,354Sep 4, 2001Natural

Every fire of 2001 Wyoming fire history

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.