Wildfires of 2010

Albright Road Fire

2010Johnson County, WyomingWildfire

The Albright Road Fire burned 1,199 acres in Johnson County, Wyoming, in 2010. It was discovered on November 6, 2010, and contained on November 7, 2010. The cause was recorded as human.

Size
1,199 acres
Discovered
November 6, 2010
Contained
November 7, 2010
Cause
Human

Map

The burned area boundary MTBS mapped from Landsat imagery, 1,311 acres. Point of origin as reported, 44.411, -106.697.

The record

Reported final size
1,199 acres
Burned area mapped by MTBS
1,311 acres
Area inside the final perimeter
1,200 acres
Discovered
November 6, 2010, 3:20 p.m. local time
Contained
November 7, 2010, 4:00 p.m. local time
Cause
Human, Undetermined
State
Wyoming
County
Johnson County
Reporting unit
Wyoming State Forestry (CPC Area)
Agency
Bureau of Land Management
Unit
WYJOX
Incident type
Wildfire
Unique fire identifier
2010-WYBFD-010301
MTBS fire identifier
WY4440410668820101106
MTBS assessment
Initial (SS)
Fire occurrence record
ICS209_2010_WY-JOX-010301

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.

From the incident teams’ reports

The status summaries (ICS-209 forms) the incident teams filed: 1. These are the teams’ own estimates, written while the incident was running, and personnel is totaled from the resources each report lists. A fact the reports leave blank is not shown, and a zero on the form is treated as blank.

Most personnel assigned
17 on November 8, 2010
Cause on the reports
Human
Primary fuel model reported
Tall Grass (2.5 feet)
Suppression strategy reported
Full suppression

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
35 Mile Marker Fire4,907Aug 27, 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

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. Incident figures from ICS-209-PLUS: St. Denis, Lise A., Karen C. Short, Kathryn McConnell, Maxwell C. Cook, Nathan P. Mietkiewicz, Mollie Buckland and Jennifer K. Balch, 2023, All-hazards dataset mined from the US National Incident Management System 1999-2020, Scientific Data 10, 112, doi.org/10.1038/s41597-023-01955-0; data on figshare, doi.org/10.6084/m9.figshare.19858927.v3, licensed CC BY 4.0. This site matched each incident to the fire by the dataset’s own links where it has them, and otherwise by name, start date, state and size, and left out figures too large to be possible for a fire of its size.