Burning 16.4 miles south-east of Arvada and 24.4 miles south-east of Clearmont, since Wednesday 2 September.
The fire sits 238 miles from Cheyenne.
226
acres burned so far
42
days burning so far
—
no share of the perimeter reported held yet
The picture as of 10:09am today
The Broken Jaw Fire is still listed as active, and has not been looked at lately. Nothing has given off fresh heat for 1028 hours.
No fresh look at this fire for 1028 hours. Everything on the map below was seen before then.
Heat in the last dayHigher ground pale, valleys darkWhere another fire is recorded
1028hours
since anything was last seen giving off heat — about 2:35pm on Wednesday, local time.
42% more
energy in the last 0.8 hours of the record
than in the 0.8 before them — the fire was
hotter when it was last seen.
15.9miles
is how close the heat has come to Arvada at any point in the record. In the last day the nearest heat has been None miles from it, and the closest this fire has come to Clearmont is 24.0 miles, None in the last day.
0.7miles
is the furthest any heat has been seen from the point on the
official record — the width of the ground involved so far.
Eight other fires are burning inside the same view. Broken Country Fire started on Monday 7 September, 1.3 miles north-east, and has reached 184 acres. Kinney Divide Fire started 1192 minutes after this one, 1.5 miles north, and has reached 20 acres. School House 1 Fire started on Thursday 3 September, 1.3 miles north-east, and has reached 0 acres. School House Fire started 381 minutes after this one, 0.3 miles north-west, and has reached 0 acres. School House 2 Fire started on Thursday 3 September, 0.5 miles south-east, and has reached 0 acres. School House 3 Fire started on Thursday 3 September, 0.3 miles south-east, and has reached 0 acres. School House Coal Seam Fire started 1389 minutes after this one, 1.5 miles north, and has reached 0 acres. Soft Water Fire started on Thursday 20 August, 4.5 miles south, and has reached 110 acres. Their heat is counted against them, not against this fire, and the pale rings on the map mark where they are recorded.
Smoke has been recorded lying over this ground seven times so far. The thickest of it was thin between 2:10pm and 5:30pm local time. The last of those windows closed 121 hours ago, so what is overhead now is not known.
Where the heat is
No cluster large enough to call a separate front. The heat is in one piece.
Conditions measured 5.1 miles from the fire: 42°F, air at 74% humidity, a 20 mph wind out of the north-west.
How it got here
One day of record on a day-44 fire
The record here begins at 12:56pm on 2 Sep and runs to 2:36pm on 2 Sep — 2 hours, 3 readings of heat. The fire is on day 44, so the first 43 days are missing: nothing showed up from above until the fire was large enough and the sky over it clear enough for it to be seen. There is no long arc to draw yet. What follows is what has actually happened.
The whole record, 9 frames at
1 hour
a frame. The bar along the bottom is energy released; the moving line is the clock.
Hour by hour local time
Wed 12:00pmWed 2:00pm
Each bar is one hour of local time, sized by how much energy the
fire gave off in it. This fire is too young for a day-against-day comparison to say
anything, so the hours are shown instead.
Day by day 1 day of record
Wed2 Seplatest
First readings
3 heat readings
Heat from 12:56pm to 2:36pm
Spread 0.7 miles from the recorded point at its furthest
Burning through the afternoon
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.
Wednesday 2 September
First reported
Wednesday 2 September
45 acres on record
45 ac
Wednesday 2 September
Grew to 125 acres
125 ac
Thursday 3 September
Grew to 226 acres
226 ac
No containment figure has been reported for it yet. No crew count has been published for it yet. It has grown from 0 acres when it was first written down to 226 now. Nothing has looked at it for 1028 hours, and the record still lists it as active.
