Wildfire Management Sector - Wyoming's Drought Website

Wildfire Management

Resources & Assistance

Game and Fish Fire Restriction Tracker

To help protect wildlife habitat and other public lands, the Wyoming Game and Fish Department will often implement fire restrictions on department-managed properties where people camp and recreate.

Anyone planning a trip to a wildlife habitat management area (WHMA) or public access area (PAA) can check a comprehensive listing of fire restrictions on the new Game and Fish fire ban webpage.

Restrictions are updated automatically, as soon as they are set in place.

Fire Restrictions
- Includes a map of Wyoming that shows fire restrictions as established by the county commissioners. Additionally, you can access websites to federal land fire restrictions.
National Fire Danger
National Significant Wildland Fire Potential Outlook
- 7-Day, current month, next month, and seasonal outlooks for Wildland Fire Potential
Wildfire Information
- A collection of written and video resources with information about what to do before, during, and after a wildfire -- as well as information about wildfire ecology. Example resources include: creating a plan to protect or evacuate animals when a wildfire looms; a link to a U.S. Forest Service map that displays active fires; fire evacuation checklist; and looking for hidden dangers on property following a fire.
Rocky Mountain Area Coordination Center, Wildfire Outlook
- Provide safe, cost effective, and timely response of national and area resources for all aspects of wildland fire management activities and other emergency management activities within the Rocky Mountain Area (RMA). RMACC cooperates with the National Interagency Coordination Center (NICC) in delivery of the national mission. This mission shall be accomplished through planning, situation analysis, needs projection, and activation of emergency resources through interagency cooperation.
Climate Prediction Center
- Delivers real-time products and information that predict and describe climate variations on timescales from weeks to years thereby promoting effective management of climate risk and a climate-resilient society.

Stress Management

Wyoming Department of Public Health: Behavioral Health
- Learn about mental health and substance use treatements for individuals.

Condition Reporting

CoCoRaHS
- Consider signing-up to be a CoCoRaHS volunteer -- a person who measures and reports precipitation (or lack of) on a daily basis (or near daily basis). CoCoRaHS volunteers play an important role in helping to document the amount of precipitation an area does or does not receive. Do you have questions about becoming a CoCoRaHS volunteer in Wyoming? Contact Tony Bergantino at antonius@uwyo.edu.
Conditioning Monitoring Observer Reports (CMOR)
- Submit a report about the conditions in your area from too dry to too wet. You can upload photos to this system showing an area, such as a stock pond, for the current year compared to a similar timeframe during a more normal year.

Drought Planning & Management

Managing Drought Risk on the Ranch
- You can download a planning guide for ranchers offered by the US Drought Mitigation Center for free from the website. Example content is provided from plans that other ranchers developed.
Collaborative Drought Planning Using Scenario Exercises
- Provides information and tools to help ranchers, public land managers among others to help plan drought scenario exercises in the process of planning and managing mitigation and response activities for a hypothetical drought.

Weather & Climate Information

: The NWS provies weather forecasts, warnings of hazardous weather, and other weathere-related products to organizations and the public for the purposes of protection, safety, and general information. Click on' the + sign to the right for a list of the 5 NWS offices that serve the people of Wyoming.