Map of California. The Colorado Fire burns 108 miles from Sacramento, and 108 miles from the state capital, Sacramento. — The fire sits 108 miles from Sacramento.

233

acres burned so far

days burning so far

—

no share of the perimeter reported held yet

The picture as of 9:09am today

The Colorado Fire is still listed as active, and has not been looked at lately. Nothing has given off fresh heat for 1049 hours.

No fresh look at this fire for 1049 hours. Everything on the map below was seen before then.

Shaded relief map of the Colorado 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

1049hours

since anything was last seen giving off heat — about 4:10pm on Tuesday, local time.

91% less

energy in the last 1.2 hours of the record than in the 1.2 before them — the fire was cooler when it was last seen.

2.9miles

is how close the heat has come to Midpines 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 Mariposa is 6.3 miles, None in the last day.

2.9miles

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. Carleton Fire started on Wednesday 16 September, 4.1 miles south-east, and has reached 0 acres. Sherlock Fire started on Tuesday 13 October, 3.6 miles west, 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.

Smoke has been recorded lying over this ground four times so far. The thickest of it was moderate between 1:00pm and 4:30pm local time. The last of those windows closed 185 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 5.7 miles from the fire: 58°F, air at 35% humidity, a 6 mph wind out of the north.

How it got here

One day of record on a day-45 fire

The record here begins at 1:51pm on 1 Sep and runs to 4:12pm on 1 Sep — 2 hours, 32 readings of heat. The fire is on day 45, so the first 44 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 Colorado Fire across the whole record, with a time bar along the bottom showing energy released and the local date. — The whole record, 10 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

Tue 1:00pmTue 4:00pm

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

Tue1 Seplatest

First readings
- 32 heat readings
- Heat from 1:51pm to 4:12pm
- Spread 2.9 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.

Tuesday 1 September

First reported
Tuesday 1 September

0 acres on record
0 ac
Tuesday 1 September

Grew to 10 acres
10 ac
Tuesday 1 September

Grew to 171 acres
171 ac
Wednesday 2 September

Grew to 232 acres
232 ac
Monday 7 September

Grew to 233 acres
233 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 233 now. Nothing has looked at it for 1049 hours, and the record still lists it as active.

Where the heat is

One day of record on a day-45 fire

Hour by hour local time

Day by day 1 day of record

First readings

How the record has moved