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Custer County, Colorado

Aspen Acres Fire

Burning 6.1 miles south-west of Beulah Valley and 10.2 miles north-west of Rye, since Monday 29 June.

Map of Colorado. The Aspen Acres Fire burns 121 miles from Denver, and 121 miles from the state capital, Denver.
The fire sits 121 miles from Denver.

102,007

acres burned so far — about 159 square miles

108

days burning so far

90%

of the perimeter held

The official record as of 10:09am today

The Aspen Acres Fire is on the interagency wildfire record at 102,007 acres in Custer 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.

90% held

90% of the perimeter is being reported as held.

10people

are assigned to the fire on the latest interagency record.

Human

is the cause on the official record.

108 days

on record — first written down on Monday 29 June at 6:04am local time, starting at 40 acres.

Type 4 Incident

is the incident-management level assigned to it.

38.019, -105.071lat, lon

is the official point of origin on the interagency record.

Conditions measured 1.4 miles from the fire: 40°F, air at 78% humidity, a 4 mph wind out of the south-east.

Another fire is burning inside the same view. Gomez Fire started on Friday 28 August, 14.0 miles south, and has reached 0 acres. Its heat is counted against it, not against this fire, and the pale ring on the map marks where it is recorded.

Smoke has been recorded lying over this ground two times so far. The thickest of it was moderate between 6:00am and 9:00am local time. The last of those windows closed 121 hours ago, so what is overhead now is not known.

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. Monday 29 June

    First reported at 40 acres

    40 ac

  2. Sunday 23 August

    102,004 acres on record — 77% contained, 157 personnel assigned

    102,004 ac · 77% held · 157 crew

  3. Wednesday 26 August

    Containment 82% — 153 personnel

    102,004 ac · 82% held · 153 crew

  4. Tuesday 6 October

    Grew to 102,007 acres — 2 personnel

    102,007 ac · 82% held · 2 crew

  5. Tuesday 13 October

    Containment 90% — 10 personnel

    102,007 ac · 90% held · 10 crew