Awatchfire

Rio Blanco County, Colorado

Big Smizer Fire

Burning 21.8 miles west of Meeker and 26.5 miles south of Maybell, since Saturday 29 August.

Map of Colorado. The Big Smizer Fire burns 182 miles from Denver, and 182 miles from the state capital, Denver.
The fire sits 182 miles from Denver.

0

acres burned so far

46

days burning so far

—

no share of the perimeter reported held yet

The official record as of 10:09am today

The Big Smizer Fire is on the interagency wildfire record at 0 acres in Rio Blanco 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.

46 days

on record — first written down on Saturday 29 August at 3:35pm local time, starting at 0 acres.

40.164, -108.279lat, lon

is the official point of origin on the interagency record.

Conditions measured 11.7 miles from the fire: 39°F, air at 92% humidity, a 15 mph wind out of the north.

Two other fires are burning inside the same view. Keystone Fire started on Tuesday 21 July, 6.6 miles north-east, and has reached 3,042 acres with 42 people assigned. Wolf Fire started on Tuesday 15 September, 14.8 miles north-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. Saturday 29 August

    First reported

  2. Saturday 29 August

    0 acres on record

    0 ac