Gunbarrel Fire
The Gunbarrel Fire burned 68,148 acres in Park County, Wyoming, in 2008. It was discovered on July 26, 2008, and contained on September 27, 2008. The cause was recorded as natural.
- Size
- 68,148 acres
- Discovered
- July 26, 2008
- Contained
- September 27, 2008
- Cause
- Natural
Map
The burned area boundary MTBS mapped from Landsat imagery, 69,695 acres. Point of origin as reported, 44.495, -109.823.
The record
- Reported final size
- 68,148 acres
- Burned area mapped by MTBS
- 69,695 acres
- Area inside the final perimeter
- 55,051 acres
- Discovered
- July 26, 2008, 12:00 p.m. local time
- Contained
- September 27, 2008, 6:00 p.m. local time
- Cause
- Natural
- State
- Wyoming
- County
- Park County
- Land ownership at origin
- Forest Service
- Reporting unit
- Shoshone National Forest
- Agency
- Forest Service
- Unit
- WYSHF
- Incident type
- Wildfire
- MTBS fire identifier
- WY4454310947320080726
- MTBS assessment
- Extended
- Fire occurrence record
- FS-1472520
- Perimeter map method
- Infrared Interpretation
- Note on the perimeter
- Fire Use Area of Gunbarrel Fire
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 20086
| Fire | Acres | Start | Cause |
|---|---|---|---|
| New Fork Fire | 15,089 | Jul 29, 2008 | Human |
| Gunbarrel Fire | 13,098 | ||
| Le Hardy Fire | 10,361 | Jul 30, 2008 | Human |
| Unnamed Fire | 2,250 | Oct 30, 2008 | Human |
| Shingle Mill Wfu Fire | 1,381 | Sep 15, 2008 | Natural |
| Unnamed Fire | 1,000 | Oct 30, 2008 | Human |
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.