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San Miguel County, Colorado

Barkelew Fire

Burning 10.0 miles south of Redvale and 11.9 miles south-west of Norwood, since Tuesday 1 September.

Map of Colorado. The Barkelew Fire burns 227 miles from Denver, and 227 miles from the state capital, Denver.
The fire sits 227 miles from Denver.

0

acres burned so far

43

days burning so far

—

no share of the perimeter reported held yet

The official record as of 10:09am today

The Barkelew Fire is on the interagency wildfire record at 0 acres in San Miguel 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.

43 days

on record — first written down on Tuesday 1 September at 1:08pm local time, starting at 0 acres.

38.042, -108.481lat, lon

is the official point of origin on the interagency record.

Conditions measured 14.0 miles from the fire: 52°F, air at 60% humidity, a 5 mph wind out of the north-east.

Three other fires are burning inside the same view. Trust Fire started on Saturday 12 September, 1.2 miles north, and has reached 0 acres. Sage Fire started on Saturday 12 September, 7.1 miles west, and has reached 0 acres. Big Gyp Fire started on Sunday 30 August, 8.0 miles west, 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. Tuesday 1 September

    First reported

  2. Tuesday 1 September

    0 acres on record

    0 ac