Elk Mountain Fire
The Elk Mountain Fire burned 1,314 acres in Converse County, Wyoming, in 2006. It was discovered on August 6, 2006. The cause was recorded as natural.
- Size
- 1,314 acres
- Discovered
- August 6, 2006
- Cause
- Natural
Map
The burned area boundary MTBS mapped from Landsat imagery, 1,217 acres. Point of origin as reported, 42.471, -105.374.
The record
- Reported final size
- 1,314 acres
- Burned area mapped by MTBS
- 1,217 acres
- Discovered
- August 6, 2006, 4:40 p.m. local time
- Cause
- Natural
- State
- Wyoming
- County
- Converse County
- Land ownership at origin
- County
- Reporting unit
- Casper Interagency Dispatch Center
- Agency
- Interagency
- Incident type
- Wildfire
- MTBS fire identifier
- WY4246210536420060806
- MTBS assessment
- Extended
- Fire occurrence record
- ICS209_2006_WY-COX-259
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 |
| Buffalo Creek Fire | 29,966 | Jul 13, 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 |
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.