Nowater Creek Fire
The Nowater Creek Fire burned 1,082 acres in Washakie County, Wyoming, in 2006. It was discovered on August 5, 2006, and contained on August 8, 2006. The cause was recorded as natural.
- Size
- 1,082 acres
- Discovered
- August 5, 2006
- Contained
- August 8, 2006
- Cause
- Natural
Map
The burned area boundary MTBS mapped from Landsat imagery, 1,191 acres. Point of origin as reported, 43.776, -107.733.
The record
- Reported final size
- 1,082 acres
- Burned area mapped by MTBS
- 1,191 acres
- Area inside the final perimeter
- 1,082 acres
- Discovered
- August 5, 2006, 1:15 p.m. local time
- Contained
- August 8, 2006, 8:00 p.m. local time
- Cause
- Natural
- State
- Wyoming
- County
- Washakie County
- Land ownership at origin
- Bureau of Land Management
- Reporting unit
- Worland Field Office
- Agency
- Bureau of Land Management
- Unit
- WYWOD
- Incident type
- Wildfire
- Unique fire identifier
- 2006-WYWOD-000237
- MTBS fire identifier
- WY4378510773720060805
- MTBS assessment
- Initial
- Fire occurrence record
- W-527320
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.
From the incident teams’ reports
The status summaries (ICS-209 forms) the incident teams filed: 2. These are the teams’ own estimates, written while the incident was running, and personnel is totaled from the resources each report lists. A fact the reports leave blank is not shown, and a zero on the form is treated as blank.
- Most personnel assigned
- 43 on August 5, 2006
- Most aircraft assigned
- 1
- Cause on the reports
- Lightning or other natural
- Primary fuel model reported
- Short Grass (1 foot)
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
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. Incident figures from ICS-209-PLUS: St. Denis, Lise A., Karen C. Short, Kathryn McConnell, Maxwell C. Cook, Nathan P. Mietkiewicz, Mollie Buckland and Jennifer K. Balch, 2023, All-hazards dataset mined from the US National Incident Management System 1999-2020, Scientific Data 10, 112, doi.org/10.1038/s41597-023-01955-0; data on figshare, doi.org/10.6084/m9.figshare.19858927.v3, licensed CC BY 4.0. This site matched each incident to the fire by the dataset’s own links where it has them, and otherwise by name, start date, state and size, and left out figures too large to be possible for a fire of its size.