Looks like a "controlled burn" got out of control,or the wind picked up real quick and nobody could get to the ATV fast enough to move it. Just a WAG.
f.t.
By chance did the fire get started by hot exhaust coming in contact with dry grass/brush etc? sorry for the loss, hope all are safe and insurance in place.
...of a couple of dozen scenarios. A grease fire started in a frying pan. We have an extinguiisher but who used it probably didn't know how to use it correctly. When I got to it, it was pretty severe but I thought I could handle it. Nope, if the fire department hadn't been called the whole place would have burned. And it's awful hard to get a fire truck to the middle of a field in time. By then they are doing 'containment'.
Wow. The wind is gusting to 70 mph here today and it's been a very dry winter. This sort of fire is my worst nightmare. Sorry for the destruction of your vehicle.
Didn't have any guns in there, did ya?
I hope not and glad you were where you were to snap the picture.
Did the vehicle start the fire or vice-versa? It looks like the latter, since it's still engulfed.
Sorry for the loss but it can be replaced.
So sorry. I remember standing by my Granfather's side as he watched a whole year's work burn to the ground in a tobacco barn fire in the '50s. No insurance to be had then, or we were too poor to have it.