Wildfires of 2007

Odegard Fire

2007Campbell County, WyomingWildfire

The Odegard Fire burned 1,268 acres in Campbell County, Wyoming, in 2007. It was discovered on August 12, 2007, and contained on August 14, 2007. The cause was recorded as natural.

Size
1,268 acres
Discovered
August 12, 2007
Contained
August 14, 2007
Cause
Natural

Map

The burned area boundary MTBS mapped from Landsat imagery, 1,187 acres. Point of origin as reported, 44.706, -105.962.

The record

Reported final size
1,268 acres
Burned area mapped by MTBS
1,187 acres
Discovered
August 12, 2007, 2:00 p.m. local time
Contained
August 14, 2007, 8:00 a.m. local time
Cause
Natural
State
Wyoming
County
Campbell County
Land ownership at origin
Private
Reporting unit
Buffalo Field Office
Agency
Bureau of Land Management
Incident type
Wildfire
MTBS fire identifier
WY4471810597520070812
MTBS assessment
Initial
Fire occurrence record
W-547717

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

FireAcresStartCause
Columbine 1 Fire18,595Aug 9, 2007Natural
Bone Creek Fire13,450Aug 13, 2007Natural
Horse Creek Fire8,590Jun 21, 2007Human
Little Goose Fire4,742Aug 10, 2007Natural
Duck Creek Fire4,321Aug 12, 2007Natural
Copper Mtn Fire3,978Sep 22, 2007Human
Hardscrabble Fire3,074Aug 9, 2007Natural
Sweetwater Fire2,945Sep 2, 2007Natural
Middle Fire2,714Aug 11, 2007Natural
Salt Lick Fire2,582Jul 11, 2007Human
Wade Hill Fire2,445Jul 7, 2007Natural
Trail Creek Fire2,234Aug 12, 2007Natural

Every fire of 2007 Wyoming fire history

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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.