Wildfires of 2006

Outlaw 2 Fire

2006Johnson County, WyomingWildfire

The Outlaw 2 Fire burned 12,309 acres in Johnson County, Wyoming, in 2006. It was discovered on August 22, 2006, and contained on September 11, 2006. The cause was recorded as natural.

Size
12,309 acres
Discovered
August 22, 2006
Contained
September 11, 2006
Cause
Natural

Map

The burned area boundary MTBS mapped from Landsat imagery, 12,273 acres. Point of origin as reported, 43.611, -107.004.

The record

Reported final size
12,309 acres
Burned area mapped by MTBS
12,273 acres
Area inside the final perimeter
12,311 acres
Discovered
August 22, 2006, 4:04 p.m. local time
Contained
September 11, 2006, 2:09 p.m. local time
Cause
Natural
State
Wyoming
County
Johnson County
Land ownership at origin
Private
Reporting unit
Buffalo Field Office
Agency
Bureau of Land Management
Unit
WYJOX
Incident type
Wildfire
Unique fire identifier
2006-WYBFD-000320
MTBS fire identifier
WY4361710697020060822
MTBS assessment
Initial
Fire occurrence record
W-530374
Perimeter map method
GPS-Flight

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
Buffalo Creek - Dooley Fire11,981
Jackson Canyon Fire11,765Aug 14, 2006Natural
Twenty Mile Fire11,083Jul 16, 2006Natural
Buffalo Creek - North Buffalo Creek Fire11,002
Trailer Fire8,416Aug 23, 2006Human

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.