Geary Dome Fire
The Geary Dome Fire burned 2,879 acres in Natrona County, Wyoming, in 2010. It was discovered on August 26, 2010, and contained on August 28, 2010. The cause was recorded as human.
- Size
- 2,879 acres
- Discovered
- August 26, 2010
- Contained
- August 28, 2010
- Cause
- Human
Map
The burned area boundary MTBS mapped from Landsat imagery, 3,084 acres. Point of origin as reported, 42.882, -106.095.
The record
- Reported final size
- 2,879 acres
- Burned area mapped by MTBS
- 3,084 acres
- Area inside the final perimeter
- 2,881 acres
- Discovered
- August 26, 2010, 4:23 p.m. local time
- Contained
- August 28, 2010, 1:13 p.m. local time
- Cause
- Human, Undetermined
- State
- Wyoming
- County
- Natrona County
- Land ownership at origin
- Bureau of Land Management
- Reporting unit
- Casper Field Office
- Agency
- Bureau of Land Management
- Unit
- WYCAD
- Incident type
- Wildfire
- Unique fire identifier
- 2010-WYCAD-010203
- MTBS fire identifier
- WY4289510605520100826
- MTBS assessment
- Initial
- Fire occurrence record
- W-608561
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: 3, from August 26, 2010 to August 28, 2010. 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 structures threatened at once
- 7
- Most personnel assigned
- 35 on August 27, 2010
- Most aircraft assigned
- 1
- Cause on the reports
- Human
- Primary fuel model reported
- Tall Grass (2.5 feet)
- Suppression strategy reported
- Full suppression
Acres reported by day
The largest rise between two days’ reports was 2,079 acres, on August 27, 2010.
Reported acres by day, as a table
| Day | Acres | Change from the day before |
|---|---|---|
| Aug 26, 2010 | 800 | |
| Aug 27, 2010 | 2,879 | +2,079 |
| Aug 28, 2010 | 2,879 | 0 |
Other large fires in Wyoming in 201012
| Fire | Acres | Start | Cause |
|---|---|---|---|
| Orpha Fire | 25,093 | Oct 4, 2010 | Human |
| Willow Creek Fire | 9,248 | Sep 9, 2010 | Human |
| Pole Creek Stands Fire | 6,861 | Sep 7, 2010 | |
| Cooley Draw Fire | 6,102 | Sep 5, 2010 | Human |
| Antelope Fire | 5,510 | Sep 14, 2010 | Natural |
| Bull Fire | 5,429 | Jul 23, 2010 | Natural |
| Windmill Fire | 5,261 | Sep 18, 2010 | Human |
| 35 Mile Marker Fire | 4,907 | Aug 27, 2010 | Human |
| Unnamed Fire | 2,007 | Sep 8, 2010 | Human |
| Deep Gulch RX Escape Fire | 1,800 | Oct 6, 2010 | Human |
| South Edwards Fire | 1,245 | Oct 8, 2010 | Human |
| Albright Road Fire | 1,199 | Nov 6, 2010 | 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. 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.