Awatchfire

Mesa County, Colorado

cottonwood canyon Fire

Burning 8.4 miles north of Fruitvale and 9.4 miles north-west of Palisade, since Monday 24 August.

Map of Colorado. The cottonwood canyon Fire burns 195 miles from Denver, and 195 miles from the state capital, Denver.
The fire sits 195 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 cottonwood canyon Fire is on the interagency wildfire record at 0 acres in Mesa 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.

Undetermined

The cause has not yet been determined.

51 days

on record — first written down on Monday 24 August at 11:18am local time, starting at 0 acres.

39.214, -108.468lat, lon

is the official point of origin on the interagency record.

Conditions measured 4.8 miles from the fire: 43°F, air at 81% humidity, a 10 mph wind out of the north-east.

Another fire is burning inside the same view. Rapid Creek 2 Fire started on Tuesday 11 August, 9.5 miles south-east, 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.

No smoke has been recorded lying over this ground.

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