Sheep Trail 2 Fire
The Sheep Trail 2 Fire burned 1,745 acres in Lincoln County, Wyoming, in 2007. It was discovered on July 15, 2007, and contained on July 25, 2007. The cause was recorded as natural.
- Size
- 1,745 acres
- Discovered
- July 15, 2007
- Contained
- July 25, 2007
- Cause
- Natural
Map
The burned area boundary MTBS mapped from Landsat imagery, 1,665 acres. Point of origin as reported, 41.999, -110.912.
The record
- Reported final size
- 1,745 acres
- Burned area mapped by MTBS
- 1,665 acres
- Area inside the final perimeter
- 1,747 acres
- Discovered
- July 15, 2007, 2:26 p.m. local time
- Contained
- July 25, 2007, 5:00 p.m. local time
- Cause
- Natural
- State
- Wyoming
- County
- Lincoln County
- Land ownership at origin
- Bureau of Land Management
- Reporting unit
- Kemmerer Field Office
- Agency
- Bureau of Land Management
- Unit
- WYKRD
- Incident type
- Wildfire
- Unique fire identifier
- 2007-WYKRD-000114
- MTBS fire identifier
- WY4198811090920070715
- MTBS assessment
- Initial
- Fire occurrence record
- W-550999
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 |
| Duck Creek Fire | 4,321 | Aug 12, 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 |
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.