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Gunnison County, Colorado

Black Mesa Fire

Burning 15.1 miles south-east of Crawford and 23.4 miles south-east of Paonia, since Wednesday 16 September.

Map of Colorado. The Black Mesa Fire burns 157 miles from Denver, and 157 miles from the state capital, Denver.
The fire sits 157 miles from Denver.

0

acres burned so far

28

days burning so far

—

no share of the perimeter reported held yet

The official record as of 10:09am today

The Black Mesa Fire is on the interagency wildfire record at 0 acres in Gunnison 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.

28 days

on record — first written down on Wednesday 16 September at 10:18am local time, starting at 0 acres.

38.572, -107.387lat, lon

is the official point of origin on the interagency record.

Conditions measured 16.3 miles from the fire: 38°F, air at 100% humidity, a 1 mph wind out of the north.

Three other fires are burning inside the same view. Oregon Fire started on Monday 5 October, 3.9 miles east, and has reached 0 acres. Corral Fire started on Monday 14 September, 4.8 miles south-west, and has reached 0 acres. Chance Fire started on Tuesday 15 September, 5.2 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. Wednesday 16 September

    First reported

  2. Wednesday 16 September

    0 acres on record

    0 ac