Buffalo Creek Fire
The Buffalo Creek Fire burned 29,966 acres in Sheridan County, Wyoming, in 2006. It was discovered on July 13, 2006, and contained on September 20, 2006. The cause was recorded as natural.
- Size
- 29,966 acres
- Discovered
- July 13, 2006
- Contained
- September 20, 2006
- Cause
- Natural
Map
The burned area boundary MTBS mapped from Landsat imagery, 37,611 acres. Point of origin as reported, 44.864, -106.311.
The record
- Reported final size
- 29,966 acres
- Burned area mapped by MTBS
- 37,611 acres
- Area inside the final perimeter
- 37,416 acres
- Discovered
- July 13, 2006, 4:54 p.m. local time
- Contained
- September 20, 2006, 9:15 a.m. local time
- Cause
- Natural
- State
- Wyoming
- County
- Sheridan County
- Land ownership at origin
- Bureau of Land Management
- Reporting unit
- Buffalo Field Office
- Agency
- Bureau of Land Management
- Unit
- CORMC
- Part of
- Buffalo Creek Complex
- Incident type
- Wildfire
- MTBS fire identifier
- WY4485510632220060713
- MTBS assessment
- Initial
- Fire occurrence record
- W-529850
- Perimeter map method
- Digitized-Other
- Note on the perimeter
- Digitized from Aerial photo
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 200612
| Fire | Acres | Start | Cause |
|---|---|---|---|
| Little Venus Fire | 34,581 | Jun 23, 2006 | Natural |
| Purdy Fire | 16,906 | Aug 5, 2006 | Natural |
| Sawmill Fire | 16,503 | Jul 18, 2006 | Natural |
| Thorn Divide Complex | 14,886 | Jul 13, 2006 | Natural |
| Old Chicago Fire | 13,882 | Jun 13, 2006 | Human |
| Old Chicago Fire | 13,317 | ||
| Outlaw 2 Fire | 12,309 | Aug 22, 2006 | Natural |
| Buffalo Creek - Dooley Fire | 11,981 | ||
| Jackson Canyon Fire | 11,765 | Aug 14, 2006 | Natural |
| Twenty Mile Fire | 11,083 | Jul 16, 2006 | Natural |
| Buffalo Creek - North Buffalo Creek Fire | 11,002 | ||
| Trailer Fire | 8,416 | Aug 23, 2006 | 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.