Awatchfire

Garfield County, Colorado

Balzac Fire

Burning 3.4 miles north-east of Battlement Mesa and 5.7 miles north-east of Parachute, since Friday 28 August.

Map of Colorado. The Balzac Fire burns 165 miles from Denver, and 165 miles from the state capital, Denver.
The fire sits 165 miles from Denver.

0

acres burned so far

47

days burning so far

—

no share of the perimeter reported held yet

The official record as of 10:09am today

The Balzac Fire is on the interagency wildfire record at 0 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.

Undetermined

The cause has not yet been determined.

47 days

on record — first written down on Friday 28 August at 6:46pm local time, starting at 0 acres.

39.490, -107.962lat, lon

is the official point of origin on the interagency record.

Conditions measured 7.5 miles from the fire: 38°F, air at 79% humidity, a 2 mph wind out of the north-west.

Six other fires are burning inside the same view. Anvil Points Fire started on Tuesday 15 September, 2.4 miles north-east, and has reached 0 acres. 310 Fire started on Thursday 6 August, 3.4 miles south, and has reached 603 acres with 11 people assigned. Helmers Gulch Fire started 1402 minutes after this one, 9.6 miles east, and has reached 0 acres. Kimball Fire started on Monday 24 August, 10.3 miles south, and has reached 0 acres. Dry Creek Fire started on Tuesday 23 June, 11.6 miles east, and has reached 316 acres with 114 people assigned. Elk Mountain Fire started on Thursday 3 September, 11.8 miles south-east, 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. Friday 28 August

    First reported

  2. Friday 28 August

    0 acres on record

    0 ac