Awatchfire

Saguache County, Colorado

Bonita Fire

Burning 6.0 miles south-west of Bonanza and 11.0 miles north of Saguache, since Saturday 29 August.

Map of Colorado. The Bonita Fire burns 128 miles from Denver, and 128 miles from the state capital, Denver.
The fire sits 128 miles from Denver.

0

acres burned so far

3

hours burning so far

no share of the perimeter reported held yet

The official record as of 7:30pm today

The Bonita Fire is on the interagency wildfire record at 0 acres in Saguache 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.

3 hours

on record — first written down on Saturday 29 August at 4:07pm local time, starting at 0 acres.

38.233, -106.217lat, lon

is the official point of origin on the interagency record.

Conditions measured 19.1 miles from the fire: 55°F, air at 59% humidity, a 3 mph wind out of the north.

Smoke has been recorded lying over this ground three times so far. The thickest of it was thin between 6:00am and 9:00am local time. The last of those windows closed 26 hours ago, so what is overhead now is not known.

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