Duck Creek Fire
The Duck Creek Fire burned 4,321 acres in Campbell County, Wyoming, in 2007. It was discovered on August 12, 2007, and contained on August 30, 2007. The cause was recorded as natural.
- Size
- 4,321 acres
- Discovered
- August 12, 2007
- Contained
- August 30, 2007
- Cause
- Natural
Map
The burned area boundary MTBS mapped from Landsat imagery, 4,207 acres. Point of origin as reported, 44.823, -105.402.
The record
- Reported final size
- 4,321 acres
- Burned area mapped by MTBS
- 4,207 acres
- Area inside the final perimeter
- 4,325 acres
- Discovered
- August 12, 2007, 6:19 p.m. local time
- Contained
- August 30, 2007, 6:00 p.m. local time
- Cause
- Natural
- State
- Wyoming
- County
- Campbell County
- Land ownership at origin
- Bureau of Land Management
- Reporting unit
- Buffalo Field Office
- Agency
- Bureau of Land Management
- Unit
- WYBFD
- Incident type
- Wildfire
- Unique fire identifier
- 2007-WYBFD-000232
- MTBS fire identifier
- WY4485310533620070812
- MTBS assessment
- Initial
- Fire occurrence record
- W-552885
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 200712
| Fire | Acres | Start | Cause |
|---|---|---|---|
| Columbine 1 Fire | 18,595 | Aug 9, 2007 | Natural |
| Bone Creek Fire | 13,450 | Aug 13, 2007 | Natural |
| Horse Creek Fire | 8,590 | Jun 21, 2007 | Human |
| Little Goose Fire | 4,742 | Aug 10, 2007 | Natural |
| Copper Mtn Fire | 3,978 | Sep 22, 2007 | Human |
| Hardscrabble Fire | 3,074 | Aug 9, 2007 | Natural |
| Sweetwater Fire | 2,945 | Sep 2, 2007 | Natural |
| Middle Fire | 2,714 | Aug 11, 2007 | Natural |
| Salt Lick Fire | 2,582 | Jul 11, 2007 | Human |
| Wade Hill Fire | 2,445 | Jul 7, 2007 | Natural |
| Trail Creek Fire | 2,234 | Aug 12, 2007 | Natural |
| Citadel Fire | 1,974 | Jun 25, 2007 | Natural |
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.