Rourke Fire
The Rourke Fire burned 4,212 acres in Campbell County, Wyoming, in 2011. It was discovered on August 22, 2011, and contained on August 31, 2011. The cause was recorded as natural.
- Size
- 4,212 acres
- Discovered
- August 22, 2011
- Contained
- August 31, 2011
- Cause
- Natural
Map
The burned area boundary MTBS mapped from Landsat imagery, 4,374 acres. Point of origin as reported, 44.498, -105.439.
The record
- Reported final size
- 4,212 acres
- Burned area mapped by MTBS
- 4,374 acres
- Area inside the final perimeter
- 4,215 acres
- Discovered
- August 22, 2011, 1:00 p.m. local time
- Contained
- August 31, 2011, 8:00 p.m. local time
- Cause
- Natural
- State
- Wyoming
- County
- Campbell County
- Land ownership at origin
- Bureau of Land Management
- Reporting unit
- Buffalo Field Office
- Agency
- Bureau of Land Management
- Unit
- WYBFD
- Incident type
- Wildfire
- Unique fire identifier
- 2011-WYBFD-011249
- MTBS fire identifier
- WY4449810543920110822
- MTBS assessment
- Extended
- Fire occurrence record
- W-630625
- Perimeter map method
- GPS-Flight
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 201112
| Fire | Acres | Start | Cause |
|---|---|---|---|
| Norton Point Fire | 24,237 | Jul 23, 2011 | Natural |
| Squaw Mtn Fire | 14,484 | Aug 21, 2011 | Natural |
| Thompson Fire | 12,000 | Aug 25, 2011 | Natural |
| Red Rock Complex | 9,670 | Aug 20, 2011 | Natural |
| Whoopup Fire | 7,462 | Jul 18, 2011 | Natural |
| Hole in the Wall Fire | 6,343 | Aug 21, 2011 | Natural |
| Carson Fire | 5,670 | Sep 24, 2011 | Human |
| Cheyenne River Fire | 5,000 | Aug 25, 2011 | Natural |
| Nowlin Fire | 4,686 | Aug 26, 2011 | Natural |
| Christnick Fire | 2,670 | Aug 30, 2011 | Natural |
| Unnamed Fire | 2,573 | Aug 28, 2011 | Human |
| Manning Fire | 2,500 | Aug 25, 2011 | Natural |
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.