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La Plata County, Colorado

Black Ridge 3 Fire

Burning 7.9 miles north of Cedar Hill and 12.1 miles east of Marvel, since Monday 24 August.

Map of Colorado. The Black Ridge 3 Fire burns 249 miles from Denver, and 249 miles from the state capital, Denver.
The fire sits 249 miles from Denver.

0

acres burned so far

51

days burning so far

—

no share of the perimeter reported held yet

The official record as of 10:09am today

The Black Ridge 3 Fire is on the interagency wildfire record at 0 acres in La Plata 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.

51 days

on record — first written down on Monday 24 August at 5:52pm local time, starting at 0 acres.

Type 5 Incident

is the incident-management level assigned to it.

37.057, -107.918lat, lon

is the official point of origin on the interagency record.

Conditions measured 16.9 miles from the fire: 43°F, air at 83% humidity, a 3 mph wind out of the east.

Four other fires are burning inside the same view. Deer Canyon Fire started 1163 minutes after this one, 6.8 miles west, and has reached 0 acres. Iron Springs Fire started on Tuesday 21 July, 9.3 miles west, and has reached 0 acres. Stateline 2 Fire started on Friday 4 September, 15.2 miles west, and has reached 0 acres. State Line Fire started on Saturday 29 August, 15.3 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. Monday 24 August

    First reported

  2. Monday 24 August

    0 acres on record

    0 ac