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Moonshine

Albany, WY · Natural

This fire is no longer active. It burned 7,325 acres in Albany before dropping off the national incident feed.

0%Inactive

7,325

Acres Burned

64

Days Burning

Sep 7, 2026

Discovered

3w ago

Last Update

Growth

No growth in the last day, containment at 100%
Sep 8 / 0 acresOct 20 / 7,325 acres

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Public Lands Nearby

5 public land units within 75 miles

Bamforth National Wildlife Refuge

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Wildlife Refuge / WY

45.5 mi

SW

Mortenson Lake National Wildlife Refuge

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Wildlife Refuge / WY

57.2 mi

SW

Hutton Lake National Wildlife Refuge

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Wildlife Refuge / WY

57.4 mi

S

Sheep Mountain Game Refuge National Game Refuge

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NCA / WY

62.8 mi

SW

Medicine Bow National Forest

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National Forest / WY

64.7 mi

SW

Situation Updates

Posted by the incident management team on InciWeb, plus changes read from NIFC interagency perimeter data

Moonshine update: 7,325 acres, 100% contained

Perimeter data
Oct 6

Per interagency perimeter data, the Moonshine containment moved from 90% to 100%.

IRWIN

Moonshine update: 7,325 acres, 90% contained

Perimeter data
Sep 28

Per interagency perimeter data, the Moonshine containment moved from 80% to 90%.

IRWIN

Moonshine update: 7,325 acres, 80% contained

Perimeter data
Sep 26

Per interagency perimeter data, the Moonshine containment moved from 74% to 80%.

IRWIN

Moonshine update: 7,325 acres, 74% contained

Perimeter data
Sep 24

Per interagency perimeter data, the Moonshine containment moved from 65% to 74%.

IRWIN

Moonshine update: 7,325 acres, 65% contained

Perimeter data
Sep 22

Per interagency perimeter data, the Moonshine containment moved from 61% to 65%.

IRWIN

Update - Moonshine Fire 09-20-2026

Announcement
Sep 20

MOONSHINE FIRE INCIDENT UPDATE September 20, 2026 FIRE STATUS 7325 Acres | 61% Contained | 120 Personnel START DATE September 7, 2026 LOCATION 17 miles southwest of Wheatland, Wyoming Fire Information : Moonshine Fire Inciweb Incident Commanders Frederick Tucker, ICT3 Peter Freire, ICT3(t) OPERATIONAL UPDATE The Moonshine Fire is nearing the end of the Wyoming Type 3 Incident Management Team’s inv...

InciWeb

Update - Moonshine Fire 09-19-2026

Announcement
Sep 19

MOONSHINE FIRE INCIDENT UPDATE September 19, 2026 FIRE STATUS 7325 Acres | 61% Contained | 132 Personnel START DATE September 7, 2026 LOCATION 17 miles southwest of Wheatland, Wyoming Fire Information : Moonshine Fire Inciweb Information number: (307) 295-2770 2026.moonshine@firenet.gov Incident Commanders Frederick Tucker, ICT3 Peter Freire, ICT3(t) Consecutive days of scattered thunderstorm acti...

InciWeb

Moonshine update: 7,325 acres, 61% contained

Perimeter data
Sep 18

Per interagency perimeter data, the Moonshine grew 5 acres to 7,325 and containment moved from 51% to 61%.

IRWIN

Update - 2026 Moonshine Fire 09-18-2026

Announcement
Sep 18

MOONSHINE FIRE INCIDENT UPDATE September 18, 2026 FIRE STATUS 7325 Acres | 51% Contained | 180 Personnel START DATE September 7, 2026 LOCATION 17 miles southwest of Wheatland, Wyoming Fire Information : Moonshine Fire Inciweb Information number: (307) 295-2770 2026.moonshine@firenet.gov Incident Commanders Frederick Tucker, ICT3 John Ellington, Deputy ICT3 (t) Peter Freire, ICT3(t) OPERATIONAL UPD...

InciWeb

Moonshine update: 7,320 acres, 51% contained

Perimeter data
Sep 17

Per interagency perimeter data, the Moonshine grew 4 acres to 7,320.

IRWIN

Update - Moonshine Fire 09-17-2026

Announcement
Sep 17

MOONSHINE FIRE INCIDENT UPDATE - September 17, 2026 FIRE STATUS 7316 Acres | 51% Contained | 172 Personnel START DATE September 7, 2026 LOCATION 17 miles southwest of Wheatland, Wyoming Fire Information : Moonshine Fire Inciweb Information number: (307) 295-2770 2026.moonshine@firenet.gov Incident Commanders Frederick Tucker, ICT3 John Ellington, Deputy ICT3 (t) Peter Freire, ICT3(t) As containmen...

InciWeb

Moonshine update: 7,316 acres, 51% contained

Perimeter data
Sep 17

Per interagency perimeter data, the Moonshine grew 12 acres to 7,316.

IRWIN

Update - 2026 Moonshine Fire 09-16-2026

Announcement
Sep 16

MOONSHINE FIRE INCIDENT UPDATE September 16, 2026 FIRE STATUS 7,304 Acres | 51% Contained | 222 Personnel START DATE September 7, 2026 LOCATION 17 miles southwest of Wheatland, Wyoming Fire Information : Moonshine Fire Inciweb Information number: (307) 295-2770 2026.moonshine@firenet.gov Incident Commanders Frederick Tucker, ICT3 John Ellington, Deputy ICT3 (t) Peter Freire, ICT3(t) Operations on ...

InciWeb

Moonshine update: 7,304 acres, 51% contained

Perimeter data
Sep 15

Per interagency perimeter data, the Moonshine grew 134 acres to 7,304 and containment moved from 47% to 51%.

IRWIN

Update - Moonshine Fire 09-15-2026

Announcement
Sep 15

MOONSHINE FIRE INCIDENT UPDATE September 15, 2026 FIRE STATUS 7,279 Acres | 47% Contained | 298 Personnel START DATE September 7, 2026 LOCATION 17 miles southwest of Wheatland, Wyoming Fire Information : Moonshine Fire Inciweb Information number: (307) 295-2770 2026.moonshine@firenet.gov Incident Commanders Frederick Tucker, ICT3 John Ellington, Deputy ICT3 (t) Peter Freire, ICT3(t) Emergency mana...

InciWeb

Timeline

Sep 7Now

64 days since discovery

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Data Sources

Fire data from NIFC Wildland Fire Interagency Geospatial Services (WFIGS) via IRWIN. Satellite hotspots from NASA FIRMS VIIRS. Situation updates are either posted by the incident management team on InciWeb or read by us from WFIGS perimeter data, and each one says which. Air quality data from EPA AirNow. Public lands boundaries from USGS PAD-US 4.0.

IRWIN ID: 253febb4-00df-4f5a-92a9-2bb07805125f

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