Wildfires of 2010

35 Mile Marker Fire

2010Weston County, WyomingWildfire

The 35 Mile Marker Fire burned 4,907 acres in Weston County, Wyoming, in 2010. It was discovered on August 27, 2010, and contained on August 28, 2010. The cause was recorded as human.

Size
4,907 acres
Discovered
August 27, 2010
Contained
August 28, 2010
Cause
Human

Map

The burned area boundary MTBS mapped from Landsat imagery, 5,048 acres. Point of origin as reported, 43.677, -104.848.

The record

Reported final size
4,907 acres
Burned area mapped by MTBS
5,048 acres
Area inside the final perimeter
4,893 acres
Discovered
August 27, 2010, 2:00 p.m. local time
Contained
August 28, 2010, 9:00 p.m. local time
Cause
Human, Undetermined
State
Wyoming
County
Weston County
Land ownership at origin
Forest Service
Reporting unit
Medicine Bow-Routt National Forests, Thunder Basin National Grassland
Agency
Forest Service
Incident type
Wildfire
MTBS fire identifier
WY4367010484520100827
MTBS assessment
Initial
Fire occurrence record
FS-1488854

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 201012

FireAcresStartCause
Orpha Fire25,093Oct 4, 2010Human
Willow Creek Fire9,248Sep 9, 2010Human
Pole Creek Stands Fire6,861Sep 7, 2010
Cooley Draw Fire6,102Sep 5, 2010Human
Antelope Fire5,510Sep 14, 2010Natural
Bull Fire5,429Jul 23, 2010Natural
Windmill Fire5,261Sep 18, 2010Human
Geary Dome Fire2,879Aug 26, 2010Human
Unnamed Fire2,007Sep 8, 2010Human
Deep Gulch RX Escape Fire1,800Oct 6, 2010Human
South Edwards Fire1,245Oct 8, 2010Human
Albright Road Fire1,199Nov 6, 2010Human

Every fire of 2010 Wyoming fire history

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.