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Garfield County, Colorado

310 Fire

Burning 1.2 miles south-east of Battlement Mesa and 3.6 miles east of Parachute, since Thursday 6 August.

Map of Colorado. The 310 Fire burns 167 miles from Denver, and 167 miles from the state capital, Denver.
The fire sits 167 miles from Denver.

603

acres burned so far — about 0.9 square miles

69

days burning so far

100%

of the perimeter held

The official record as of 10:09am today

The 310 Fire is on the interagency wildfire record at 603 acres in Garfield County, Colorado. The figures below are the official record. A satellite heat map and day-by-day history appear here as soon as detections are attributed to this fire.

100% held

100% of the perimeter is being reported as held.

11people

are assigned to the fire on the latest interagency record.

Human

is the cause on the official record.

69 days

on record — first written down on Thursday 6 August at 12:42pm local time, starting at 0 acres.

Type 5 Incident

is the incident-management level assigned to it.

39.444, -107.984lat, lon

is the official point of origin on the interagency record.

Conditions measured 10.9 miles from the fire: 33°F, air at 86% humidity, a 4 mph wind out of the north-west.

Six other fires are burning inside the same view. Balzac Fire started on Friday 28 August, 3.4 miles north, and has reached 0 acres. Anvil Points Fire started on Tuesday 15 September, 5.4 miles north-east, and has reached 0 acres. Kimball Fire started on Monday 24 August, 7.5 miles south, and has reached 0 acres. Elk Mountain Fire started on Thursday 3 September, 10.5 miles south-east, and has reached 0 acres. Powerline Fire started on Tuesday 25 August, 10.8 miles south-west, and has reached 0 acres. Pinyon Fire started on Tuesday 25 August, 11.1 miles south-west, and has reached 3 acres. Their heat is counted against them, not against this fire, and the pale rings on the map mark where they are recorded.

No smoke has been recorded lying over this ground.

No satellite heat has been attributed to this fire yet — either it is too new for a pass to have caught it, or it is too small to register from orbit. Everything above is from the interagency incident record and updates as that record does.

How the record has moved

Each step is a change on the interagency incident record — acreage, containment or crews — with the date it was reported. No satellite reading is involved.

  1. Thursday 6 August

    First reported

  2. Sunday 23 August

    603 acres on record — 100% contained, 11 personnel assigned

    603 ac · 100% held · 11 crew