South Highlight Fire
The South Highlight Fire burned 944 acres in Campbell County, Wyoming, in 2010. It was discovered on July 18, 2010, and contained on July 21, 2010. The cause was recorded as railroad operations and maintenance.
- Size
- 944 acres
- Discovered
- July 18, 2010
- Contained
- July 21, 2010
- Cause
- Human
Map
The burned area boundary MTBS mapped from Landsat imagery, 1,189 acres. Point of origin as reported, 43.721, -105.360.
The record
- Reported final size
- 944 acres
- Burned area mapped by MTBS
- 1,189 acres
- Area inside the final perimeter
- 940 acres
- Discovered
- July 18, 2010, 2:00 p.m. local time
- Contained
- July 21, 2010, 2:30 p.m. local time
- Cause
- Human, Railroad operations and maintenance
- State
- Wyoming
- County
- Campbell 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
- WY4370310535020100718
- MTBS assessment
- Initial
- Fire occurrence record
- FS-1486571
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
| 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 |
| Geary Dome Fire | 2,879 | Aug 26, 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 |
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.