Map of Colorado. The Burnett Gulch Fire burns 43 miles from Denver, and 43 miles from the state capital, Denver. — The fire sits 43 miles from Denver.

acres burned so far

days burning so far

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no share of the perimeter reported held yet

The picture as of 10:09am today

The Burnett Gulch Fire is still listed as active, and has not been looked at lately. Nothing has given off fresh heat for 919 hours.

No fresh look at this fire for 919 hours. Everything on the map below was seen before then.

Shaded relief map of the Burnett Gulch Fire. Amber flames mark every place that gave off heat in the last day; the shading is the shape of the ground. — Heat in the last day Higher ground pale, valleys dark Where another fire is recorded

919hours

since anything was last seen giving off heat — about 3:15am on Monday, local time.

0readings

of heat in the last day. There is not yet an earlier stretch of record to compare that against.

5.3miles

is how close the heat has come to Lyons 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 Altona is 11.8 miles, None in the last day.

0.3miles

is the furthest any heat has been seen from the point on the official record — the width of the ground involved so far.

Two other fires are burning inside the same view. Moose Mountain Fire started on Friday 28 August, 2.8 miles west, and has reached 2 acres. Spring Gulch Fire started on Thursday 8 October, 1.1 miles south-west, and has reached 1 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 two times so far. The thickest of it was moderate between 6:00am and 9:00am 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 7.9 miles from the fire: 42°F, air at 72% humidity, a 5 mph wind out of the north.

How it got here

One day of record on a day-39 fire

The record here begins at 3:17am on 7 Sep and runs to 3:17am on 7 Sep — 0 hours, 1 readings of heat. The fire is on day 39, so the first 38 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.

Animated map of the Burnett Gulch Fire across the whole record, with a time bar along the bottom showing energy released and the local date. — The whole record, 7 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

Mon 3:00amMon 3:00am

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

Mon7 Seplatest

First readings
- 1 heat readings
- Heat from 3:17am to 3:17am
- Spread 0.3 miles from the recorded point at its furthest
- Burning through the pre-dawn

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.

Monday 7 September

First reported at 3 acres
3 ac
Monday 7 September

3 acres on record
3 ac
Monday 7 September

Grew to 18 acres
18 ac
Monday 7 September

Revised to 3 acres
3 ac
Monday 7 September

Revised to 3 acres
3 ac

No containment figure has been reported for it yet. No crew count has been published for it yet. It has grown from 3 acres when it was first written down to 3 now. Nothing has looked at it for 919 hours, and the record still lists it as active.

Where the heat is

One day of record on a day-39 fire

Hour by hour local time

Day by day 1 day of record

First readings

How the record has moved