2011 CODY INTERAGENCY DISPATCH CENTER

YEAR END REPORT

Cooperating Agencies

Bureau of Land Management United States Forest Service

National Park Service Bureau of Indian Affairs

Wyoming State Forest Service Park, Hot Springs, Washakie, Fremont, Big Horn, Carbon, Natrona, Sheridan,

Johnson, Sweetwater Counties

Hole-In-The-Wall Fire

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CODY INTERAGENCY DISPATCH CENTER 2011 YEAR END REPORT

The 2011 fire season was an average year; the normal weather patterns that occurred were typical for this area. The high country received an abundant amount of snow….

Bighorn Mountains mid June 2011

This led to early summer flooding concerns. BLM fuels/fire personnel assisted Washakie County with sandbagging in Tensleep.

Summer weather was not out of the ordinary, typical hot and dry the last half of July into August and September. The year rounded out with a long seasonal fall extending the fire season and Rx burning into November. Snow

and cold weather came around mid-November and continued to the end of the year. The first wildfire of the season occurred January 21st with the final fire of the year occurring November 13th. Total number of fires, all agencies this season was 180, of those 120 were human caused (majority being on the Wind River Indian Reservation) and 60 lightning. Total acres all agencies was 35,079. 5 year average for number of fires and acres is 141 fires for 29,838 acres for all agencies with in the Cody Interagency Dispatch Center area. The dispatch center supported several extended attack fires, including 4 type 3 incidents, one of which changed complexity several times over the course of the season and resulted in ramping up to Type 3 several times and then back to a Type 4 (Norton Point). The dispatch center also supported 2 Type 2 incidents, Norton Point and the Hole-In-The-Wall. Richardson’s Type 2 Team was ordered for Norton Point which started 7/23 and was determined to be a candidate for a multiple objective fire. The majority of this fire burned into the Washakie Wilderness resulting in 24,232 acres of mostly bug killed timber being consumed. It was finally called out on 11/15. Lowe’s Type 2 Team was ordered for the Hole-In-The-Wall fire which started on 8/27 and burned a total of 6343 acres, 3808 of which burned into Montana onto the Custer National Forest and threatened Red Lodge, MT. Dispatching and support for this fire remained with the Cody Interagency Dispatch Center through the duration of the incident. It was called out on 11/5.

Reservoir Fire

Norton Point Fire

The Cody Interagency Dispatch center began mobilizing resources in early March in support of front range fires in CO and then later in the month to Oklahoma and Texas. This continued on throughout the season and impacted the dispatch center in the early season with the volume of orders that were processed. The dispatch center mobilized equipment, crews, aircraft, overhead and supplies totaling 3662 resource ordered processed in support of local incidents as well as incidents in Wyoming, Texas, Colorado, Montana, New Mexico, Florida, Arizona, Georgia, Nevada, Mississippi, South Dakota, and Idaho. Expanded Dispatch was in place for 61 days starting around mid-July. The Dispatch Center was not quite fully staffed in that all the vacancies were filled but the BIA position was cut from Permanent Full Time to a Career Seasonal, which impacted the dispatch center negatively in that it inhibited the ability to provide appropriate coverage in the off season. One FS seasonal dispatcher was hired as well as 2 FS STEP positions. Once again a “broken” fire fighter was taken in for the season which proved to be very advantageous to both the center and the employee. 538 Incident Actions were processed this past year which included wildfire appropriate management responses, prescribed fire support, public assists, all risk incidents, flight requests/following for: the USFS Regional Bug flight, USFWS Grizzly Bear Survey, USFWS Elk & Sheep Survey, USFWS Pronghorn Survey, USGS Elk Survey, USGS Elk VHF Collar Retrieval, State Forest Health Survey, and locally for Wildhorse, Wilderness, Radio Maintenance, and Sage Grouse programs. On the Horizon, the dispatch center staff continues to represent and support the dispatch community at the area and national level with personnel involved in training, ROSS Reports Management Board, Wildcad, National Dispatch Training Steering committee, D-510 Steering committee, and assisting centers across the board with reports, web pages, and computer programs. Looking towards 2012 brings a prediction from a “seasoned” operations person that states, “Every 6th year since 1910 has been a very active fire season in the Rockies”. By my calculations that will put us at the 17th 6th year in 2012. We will be ready!

Norton Point Fire at Sunset

2011 CRC Fire Statistics

Lightning Acres

Human Acres

# of Lightning Caused

# of Human Caused 

BLM  900.2 144.9 18 8 

BHF  2244 0.1 19 1 

SHF  26784 639.7 10 14 

NPS  0 0 0 0 

WRA  9.5 136.1 5 67 

State/Private  123.9 288.3 8 30 

Totals  33869.6 1209.1 60 120 

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Fire Statistics by Unit

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Human 8 1 14 0 67 30

Lightning 18 19 10 0 5 8

Fire Numbers by Cause and Agency

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Norton Point fire

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BLM BHF SHF NPS WRA State/Private

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Human 144.9 0.1 639.7 0 136.1 288.3

Lightning 900.2 2244 26784 0 9.5 123.9 3808

Fire Acres by Cause and Agency

Human

Lightning

2011 Large Fire Summary

Incident Start Cause Final Agency State & Team Team

Name Date Acreage Unit Name Type

Norton Point 7/23/11 L 24,232 USFS WY-SHF Richardson Type 2

Warm Springs 8/22/11 H 787 USFS WY-SHF Russell Type 3

Paintrock 8/25/11 L 412 BLM WY-WBD O’Brian Type 3

Hole in the Wall 8/27/11 L 6,343 USFS WY-SHF Lowe Type 2

Reservoir 8/31/11 L 2,225 USFS WY-BHF Russell Type 3

Reservoir fire

2011 Incident Action Summary

Reservoir fire

49

356

180

False Alarm

RX

Not on Unit

Duplicate

Wildfires

5 – Year Averages: Fires and Acres

2007 2008 2009 2010 Average 2011

Number 124 105 130 168 141 180

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Number of Fires

Number

2007 2008 2009 2010 Average 2011

Acres 40088 70363 1442 2220 29838 35079

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1442 2220

2983835079

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CDC Resource Order Statistics

2011 Resource Orders

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Aircraft Crews Equipment Overhead Supply

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Filled 147 57 194 509 1974

Total Resource Orders

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BLM BHF SHF NPS WRA State/Private

Supplies 70 68 2301 0 0 19

Overhead 37 21 449 0 1 5

Equipment 27 9 154 0 1 0

Crews 11 14 33 0 0 0

Aircraft 21 18 110 0 0 2

Local Resource Orders

Supplies

Overhead

Equipment

Crews

Aircraft

Resource Order Requests Processed

Norton Point fire

2007 2008 2009 2010 Average 2011

Total Orders 446 1256 1788 3662

446

1256

1788

3662

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Total Orders

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Crew Summary

41

14

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Crew Orders Placed by WY‐CDC

Type 1

Type 2

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13

19

2

External Crew Orders Filled by WY‐CDC

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Type 2

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2011 Crew Usage

Crews assigned to CDC incidents 

Type 1  Type 2 

36  14 

Crews dispatched by CDC 

In RMCC Out of RMCC 

T1  9 4

T2  14 5

2011 Aircraft Summary

6

6

29

6

6

3

8

4

Aircraft Orders Placed by WY‐CDC

T1 Helicopter

T2 Helicopter

T3 Helicopter

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T2 Tanker

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