Wildfires of 2006

Isabelle Fire

2006Albany County, WyomingWildfire

The Isabelle Fire burned 1,191 acres in Albany County, Wyoming, in 2006. It was discovered on June 19, 2006, and contained on June 27, 2006. MTBS dates its ignition to June 18, 2006. The cause was recorded as natural.

Size
1,191 acres
Discovered
June 19, 2006
Contained
June 27, 2006
Cause
Natural

Map

The burned area boundary MTBS mapped from Landsat imagery, 1,232 acres. Point of origin as reported, 41.130, -106.098.

The record

Reported final size
1,191 acres
Burned area mapped by MTBS
1,232 acres
Area inside the final perimeter
1,184 acres
Discovered
June 19, 2006, 12:00 p.m. local time
Ignition (MTBS)
June 18, 2006
Contained
June 27, 2006, 6:00 p.m. local time
Cause
Natural
State
Wyoming
County
Albany County
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
WY4113910608220060618
MTBS assessment
Extended
Fire occurrence record
FS-1446680

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

FireAcresStartCause
Little Venus Fire34,581Jun 23, 2006Natural
Buffalo Creek Fire29,966Jul 13, 2006Natural
Purdy Fire16,906Aug 5, 2006Natural
Sawmill Fire16,503Jul 18, 2006Natural
Thorn Divide Complex14,886Jul 13, 2006Natural
Old Chicago Fire13,882Jun 13, 2006Human
Old Chicago Fire13,317
Outlaw 2 Fire12,309Aug 22, 2006Natural
Buffalo Creek - Dooley Fire11,981
Jackson Canyon Fire11,765Aug 14, 2006Natural
Twenty Mile Fire11,083Jul 16, 2006Natural
Buffalo Creek - North Buffalo Creek Fire11,002

Every fire of 2006 Wyoming fire history

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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.