Tongue River Fire Dist- Ranchester Fire

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Tongue River Fire Dist- Ranchester Fire Tongue River Fire District, We cover 300 square miles of Nothern Sheridan County

Homecoming Parade tonight in Dayton on Main st. Starts at 6pm! Come show your eagle pride! LETS GO EAGLES!!!!!! 💚🤍💚🤍💚🤍💚🤍...
10/15/2026

Homecoming Parade tonight in Dayton on Main st. Starts at 6pm! Come show your eagle pride! LETS GO EAGLES!!!!!! 💚🤍💚🤍💚🤍💚🤍

Tongue River Eagles

10/15/2026

A cold front moving through the region has triggered a windy, much colder weather pattern.
• Sustained Winds: Northwest winds are tracking between 15 and 30 mph throughout the daytime hours. As of 5:00 AM MDT, the National Weather Service at Sheridan County Airport (KSHR) already clocked sustained speeds at 24 mph.
• Peak Gusts: Wind gusts are expected to frequently surpass 40 to 45+ mph, creating a noticeable wind chill down into the 30s despite an actual high temperature of around 54°F.
• Timeline: The highest winds will persist through the afternoon before steadily subsiding overnight.

Immediate Impacts & Precautions

• 💨 Securing Property: Loose outdoor items like patio furniture, trash cans, and Halloween decorations should be anchored or brought indoors.
• 🚗 High-Profile Vehicles: Drivers on regional routes should prepare for sudden crosswinds. You can check live travel impacts and closures via the WYDOT 511 Road Conditions Map.
•🔥🚫 The burn ban for Sheridan County is still in place. Winds will stir up the two recent burn scarsin Sheridan county, pushing the lose dirt around. If working outside make sure your fire aware and have water close by. With increased winds come potential for rapid fire growth.
• 🌡️ Temperature Drop: Winds shift south overnight, but clear skies will cause temperatures to plummet to a freezing low of around 20°F to 27°F by Friday morning.
Weather patterns will clear up significantly heading into the weekend, with calm conditions and sunny skies pushing temperatures back into the 70s by Saturday.

Message from the County Fire Warden Chris Thomas regarding the PK Fire.PK fire update: The fire received moisture most ...
10/12/2026

Message from the County Fire Warden Chris Thomas regarding the PK Fire.

PK fire update: The fire received moisture most of yesterday. Crews yesterday mopped up the dozer berms with heat in them with help from a County blade. We were able to do a little more rolling back of the fireline berms on contingency lines along the Beckton road until the ground got too greasy to work.
The woody draw continues to have heat in there with cottonwood trees and brush burning well interior to the fire. The plan now is to monitor the fire and let that woody draw burn itself out over the next few days and weeks. Burning cottonwood trees can fall at any time so we do not want to risk putting firefighters into the draw at this time. If the weather changes and we need to do additional work around the woody draw beyond what we can handle, we are in talks with the State for resources to help with that.

I also want to thank everyone that helped out with this incident. None of us could do this alone and we are truly blessed with folks from many agencies that come together in times of need and work well together to get the job done.

Congratulations to the TRMS Girls Volleyball team on your District Championship!
10/11/2026

Congratulations to the TRMS Girls Volleyball team on your District Championship!

10/11/2026

This fire is at 80% contained and has been mapped at 1,645 acres. We thank everyone that helped to get this under control and stop spreading.

To watch, and be apart of, the multi agency effort was truly amazing. When we can step back for a few minutes and look at the whole picture, it is so remarkable how we can all come together to help our communities.

Thank you to the community members that helped with suppression efforts as well.

10/11/2026

HUGE shout out to The Parkman Bar and Grill for having the most amazing breakfast for the firefighters yesterday morning. The support from our locals durring times like that is truly a blessing. All of the firefighters appreciated the breakfast. Thank you so much.

10/11/2026

Around 8pm tonight, roughly 30 minutes from this post. We will be escorting the TRMS Girls Volleyball team to the school as they are District Champions! Come cheer the girls home!! GOOOOOOOOO EAGLES!!!!! 💚🤍💚🤍💚🤍 Tongue River Eagles

Lastest update on the PK Fire. Please stay out of the area and let the remaining crews work. Thank you to everyone that ...
10/10/2026

Lastest update on the PK Fire. Please stay out of the area and let the remaining crews work. Thank you to everyone that helped with this.

10/08/2026

FIRE WEATHER WATCH IN EFFECT FROM FRIDAY AFTERNOON THROUGH FRIDAY EVENING...

The US National Weather Service Billings Montana has issued a Fire Weather
Watch...which is in effect from Friday afternoon through Friday evening.

* IMPACTS: Low humidities, unseasonably warm temperatures, and strong gusty winds will create erratic fire behavior for new or existing fires.

* AFFECTED AREA:
In North Central WY Fire Zones...274...284.
In South Central MT Fire Zone...126.

* COUNTIES AFFECTED:
In North Central WY...Big Horn...Johnson...Sheridan...Washakie.
In South Central MT...Carbon...Park...Stillwater...Sweet Grass.

* WIND: Southwest 10 to 20 mph with gusts up to 30 mph.

* HUMIDITY: As low as 10 percent.

* TEMPERATURES: Up to 88 degrees.

* ADDITIONAL DETAILS: The worst conditions are expected across
the lower to middle elevations in fine fuels.

PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...

A Fire Weather Watch means that critical fire weather conditions are forecast to occur. Listen for later forecasts and possible Red
Flag Warnings.

Three structures were threatened during the Border Fire. Tongue River Fire Department is especially grateful to Sheridan...
10/07/2026

Three structures were threatened during the Border Fire. Tongue River Fire Department is especially grateful to Sheridan Fire for providing structure protection. The department also thanks Dayton Fire, Goose Valley Fire, Clearmont Fire, the U.S. Forest Service, Sheridan County Road and Bridge, the Sheridan County Sheriff's Office, the Wyoming Highway Patrol, BNSF Railway, and the landowners who responded.
"We are grateful for all of the resources that came together on the Border Fire, and especially for Sheridan Fire, whose structure protection made a real difference with three structures threatened," said Chief Jeff Barron of Tongue River Fire Department. "We will keep patrolling the fire, and we ask the public to help us keep an eye on it."
What the public can do: Tongue River Fire encourages anyone who sees anything that looks like it might escape the fire line to report it right away. Call 911 for any fire that appears to be spreading.

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249 US Highway 14
Ranchester, WY
82839

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+13076559561

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