Awatchfire

Rio Grande County, Colorado

Burnt Spring Fire

Burning 18.5 miles south of Del Norte and 18.6 miles south of Gerrard, since Monday 24 August.

Map of Colorado. The Burnt Spring Fire burns 183 miles from Denver, and 183 miles from the state capital, Denver.
The fire sits 183 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 Burnt Spring Fire is on the interagency wildfire record at 0 acres in Rio Grande 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 12:33pm local time, starting at 0 acres.

37.425, -106.461lat, lon

is the official point of origin on the interagency record.

Conditions measured 16.0 miles from the fire: 35°F, air at 69% humidity, a 0 mph wind out of the south-west.

Another fire is burning inside the same view. Pass Fire started on Friday 28 August, 14.2 miles west, and has reached 0 acres. Its heat is counted against it, not against this fire, and the pale ring on the map marks where it is recorded.

Smoke has been recorded lying over this ground once so far. The thickest of it was thin 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.

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