Stage 1 Fire Restrictions are in effect for the Teton Interagency Dispatch Area.
Bridger-Teton National Forest Stage 1 Restrictions
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Natural caused start from lightning strike.
Lightning the afternoon of August 24th started the Skull Creek Meadows Fire, located northeast of Mount Leidy. The fire was located and sized up early evening by the Teton Interagency helicopter. Five Firefighters from the Teton Interagency Fire Module will staff the fire early Tuesday morning.
The Pass fire was the result of an August 24th late afternoon lightning fire. Four Teton Interagency Firefighters responded to the tenth acre fire.
The lighting-caused Iron Rim Creek fire was sized-up early evening by Teton Interagency Helitack. Six firefighters will staff the fire early Tuesday morning.
Carson Stinson, Irish Canyon Fire Incident Commander trainee, reported that the fire was approximately a quarter acre in size and appeared to be caused by recent lightning. The fire was reported by a driver on the highway passing by Sand Draw south of Boulder.
The Cow Creek fire was reported to Teton Interagency Dispatch on Thursday, August 6. The fire is 8 acres and is believed to be a "holdover" from lightning several days earlier. As of today, August 10, there are 16 smokejumpers and one helicopter assigned to the fire.
Lightning caused fire, called out on 7/27
This is a new fire start from the lightning storm passing over the Teton area on 8/28, detected on Saturday by a homeowner living in the Munger Mountain area. This small fire .10 acre is smoldering in heavy timber and has moderate potential for growth. Due to the proximity of the fire and the wildland urban interface, this fire is being fully suppressed.
Several lightning strikes have been documented from the storms passing through the Teton fire area on 8/29. The Grey Hills fire is one of those strikes which had enough receptive vegetation at the base of the tree to smolder half a day before being detected by an ATV tour group riding in the area.
Smoke was reported 1/3 mile north of the AMK Research Station on the early evening of August 15, shortly after a thunderstorm had passed through the area. An engine crew responded on foot and located a lightning-ignited fire, smoldering in surface fuels on a slope to the east of Jackson Lake, on Sargents Point. The fire was suppressed on August 16 and controlled that evening at 0.1 acres. A squad re-visited the fire on Sunday August 18th and determined that the fire was OUT.
