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Routt County, Colorado

8 80 Fire

Burning 13.6 miles north-east of Hayden and 20.8 miles north-west of Steamboat Springs, since Sunday 30 August.

Map of Colorado. The 8 80 Fire burns 134 miles from Denver, and 134 miles from the state capital, Denver.
The fire sits 134 miles from Denver.

4

acres burned so far

45

days burning so far

—

no share of the perimeter reported held yet

The official record as of 10:09am today

The 8 80 Fire is on the interagency wildfire record at 4 acres in Routt 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.

Natural

is the cause on the official record.

45 days

on record — first written down on Sunday 30 August at 12:30pm local time, starting at 4 acres.

40.663, -107.133lat, lon

is the official point of origin on the interagency record.

Conditions measured 20.5 miles from the fire: 29°F, air at 100% humidity, a 0 mph wind out of the south-west.

Two other fires are burning inside the same view. Mill Creek 4 Fire started 1340 minutes before this one, 0.5 miles south, and has reached 2 acres. Ia 1345 Fire started on Monday 21 September, 2.4 miles north, and has reached 0 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. Sunday 30 August

    First reported at 4 acres

    4 ac
  2. Sunday 30 August

    4 acres on record

    4 ac