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Montrose County, Colorado

Blue Mesa Fire

Burning 21.6 miles north-west of Nucla and 23.4 miles north-west of Naturita, since Saturday 12 September.

Map of Colorado. The Blue Mesa Fire burns 230 miles from Denver, and 230 miles from the state capital, Denver.
The fire sits 230 miles from Denver.

0

acres burned so far

32

days burning so far

—

no share of the perimeter reported held yet

The official record as of 10:09am today

The Blue Mesa Fire is on the interagency wildfire record at 0 acres in Montrose 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.

32 days

on record — first written down on Saturday 12 September at 2:41pm local time, starting at 0 acres.

38.483, -108.838lat, lon

is the official point of origin on the interagency record.

Conditions measured 22.8 miles from the fire: 52°F, air at 60% humidity, a 5 mph wind out of the north-east.

Six other fires are burning inside the same view. Blue Creek Fire started 13 minutes after this one, 1.8 miles north-east, and has reached 0 acres. Moon Canyon Fire started 14 minutes after this one, 2.0 miles north-east, and has reached 0 acres. Azul Mesa Fire started 1184 minutes after this one, 2.2 miles north, and has reached 0 acres. Where Fire started 1202 minutes after this one, 3.9 miles east, and has reached 0 acres. Sewemup Fire started 5 minutes after this one, 4.1 miles north-west, and has reached 0 acres. Subsequent Fire started 1245 minutes after this one, 4.6 miles south, 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 12 September

    First reported

  2. Saturday 12 September

    0 acres on record

    0 ac