With all the wet weather and the late spring in Yellowstone National Park, conditions have been unfavorable for any forest fires. That's changing, as lightning has sparked a small fire on the Central Plateau south of Gibbon Falls.
The remote Antelope Fire in Yellowstone National Park is now at 60 acres, but geography, weather and a location near a previously burned-out area will probably prevent it from growing too much more, say officials.
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The current forest fire n Yellowstone National Park isn't much: the Doane Fire in the southwest corner of the Park is a quarter-acre in size, probably started by lightning.
In a sobering reminder that Mother Nature can be dangerous and unpredictable in Yellowstone National Park, nine visitors to Old Faithful Geyser were injured by lightning late Tuesday afternoon.
A small fire on Sepulcher Mountain caused by a lightning strike has forced Yellowstone National Park officials to close down the popular Sepulcher Mountain Trail, near the park’s northern boundary and about three miles west-northwest of Mammoth Hot Springs.
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