Waddle Creek Fire
The Waddle Creek Fire was reported on August 17, 2020 in Sheridan County, Wyoming and burned 25,590 acres. It was declared out on August 31, 2020. Incident teams reported 2 structures destroyed.
- Size
- 25,590 acres
- Contained
- 94%
- Discovered
- August 17, 2020
- Personnel
- 57
- Structures destroyed
- 2
Map
Perimeter mapped May 4, 2021 at 4:50 PM MDT (mixed methods). Point of origin 44.984, -106.529.
The incident
- Size
- 25,590 acres
- Containment
- 94%
- Discovered
- August 17, 2020 at 5:11 PM MDT
- Contained
- August 20, 2020 at 5:07 PM MDT
- Declared out
- August 31, 2020 at 4:00 PM MDT
- Cause
- Unknown, Cause and Origin Not Identified
- Location
- 25 miles East of Sheridan, WY on 77 Ranch
- County
- Sheridan County
- State
- Wyoming
- Nearest city reported
- Sheridan
- Protecting agency
- C&L
- Land ownership at origin
- Private
- Personnel assigned
- 57
- Incident management
- Type 5 IC
- Primary fuel
- Short Grass (1 foot)
- Estimated cost to date
- $750,000
- Incident type
- Wildfire
- Unique fire identifier
- 2020-WYSHX-200603
- IRWIN identifier
- E19546FF-BA73-43A2-9F58-028D3B9104F6
From the incident teams’ reports
The status summaries (ICS-209 forms) the incident teams filed: 4, from August 17, 2020 to August 20, 2020. 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.
- Structures destroyed
- 2 (2 residences)
- Structures damaged
- 2
- Most structures threatened at once
- 38
- Most personnel assigned
- 52 on August 18, 2020
- Most aircraft assigned
- 2
- Cost reported by the teams
- $750,000, in 2020 dollars
- Primary fuel model reported
- Short Grass (1 foot)
- Suppression strategy reported
- Full suppression
Acres reported by day
The largest rise between two days’ reports was 19,100 acres, on August 18, 2020.
Reported acres by day, as a table
| Day | Acres | Change from the day before |
|---|---|---|
| Aug 17, 2020 | 6,500 | |
| Aug 18, 2020 | 25,600 | +19,100 |
| Aug 19, 2020 | 25,600 | 0 |
| Aug 20, 2020 | 25,600 | 0 |
Weather in the area
This fire is no longer listed as current. The forecast for Sheridan, WY covers the area today.
Nearby
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Incident record from the National Interagency Fire Center’s Wildland Fire Interagency Geospatial Services (WFIGS), as the incident’s managers report it; last updated September 9, 2020 at 8:48 AM MDT. Identifier 2020-WYSHX-200603.
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.