Butte Creek Fire
The Butte Creek Fire burned 1,515 acres in Park County, Wyoming, in 2012. It was discovered on July 26, 2012. MTBS dates its ignition to July 25, 2012. The cause was recorded as natural.
- Size
- 1,515 acres
- Discovered
- July 26, 2012
- Cause
- Natural
Map
The burned area boundary MTBS mapped from Landsat imagery, 1,347 acres. Point of origin as reported, 44.113, -109.812.
The record
- Reported final size
- 1,515 acres
- Burned area mapped by MTBS
- 1,347 acres
- Area inside the final perimeter
- 1,514 acres
- Discovered
- July 26, 2012, 9:05 a.m. local time
- Ignition (MTBS)
- July 25, 2012
- Cause
- Natural
- State
- Wyoming
- County
- Park County
- Land ownership at origin
- Forest Service
- Reporting unit
- Bridger-Teton National Forest
- Agency
- Forest Service
- Unit
- WYBTF
- Part of
- Bear Cub/Butte Creek Complex
- Incident type
- Wildfire
- MTBS fire identifier
- WY4411310981120120725
- MTBS assessment
- Extended
- Fire occurrence record
- FS-1509490
- Perimeter map method
- Infrared Interpretation
- Note on the perimeter
- Managed for resource objectives; Infrared
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 201212
| Fire | Acres | Start | Cause |
|---|---|---|---|
| Arapaho Fire | 98,115 | Jun 27, 2012 | Natural |
| Fontenelle Fire | 65,220 | Jun 24, 2012 | Human |
| Oil Creek Fire | 61,416 | Jun 29, 2012 | Human |
| Alpine Lake Fire | 45,877 | Aug 9, 2012 | Natural |
| North Buffalo Fire | 29,950 | Aug 24, 2012 | Human |
| Cato Fire | 27,677 | Jun 25, 2012 | Natural |
| Sheep Herder Hill Complex | 15,556 | Sep 9, 2012 | Human |
| Sawmill Canyon Fire | 14,140 | Jul 14, 2012 | Human |
| Squirrel Creek Fire | 10,517 | Jun 30, 2012 | Human |
| Bear Mountain Complex | 8,796 | Jul 27, 2012 | Natural |
| Cow Camp Fire | 8,334 | Jun 4, 2012 | Natural |
| Gilead Fire | 8,189 | Aug 14, 2012 | 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.