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Mesa County, Colorado

Cottonwood Creek Fire

Burning 5.5 miles south-west of Collbran and 13.6 miles south-east of De Beque, since Wednesday 16 September.

Map of Colorado. The Cottonwood Creek Fire burns 172 miles from Denver, and 172 miles from the state capital, Denver.
The fire sits 172 miles from Denver.

0

acres burned so far

29

days burning so far

—

no share of the perimeter reported held yet

The official record as of 3:20am today

The Cottonwood Creek 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.

Natural

is the cause on the official record.

29 days

on record — first written down on Wednesday 16 September at 2:45pm local time, starting at 0 acres.

39.173, -108.021lat, lon

is the official point of origin on the interagency record.

Conditions measured 19.9 miles from the fire: 38°F, air at 75% humidity, a 12 mph wind out of the north-east.

Two other fires are burning inside the same view. Powderhorn Fire started on Monday 31 August, 10.5 miles south-west, and has reached 0 acres. Kimball Fire started on Monday 24 August, 12.7 miles north, 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.

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. Wednesday 16 September

    First reported

  2. Wednesday 16 September

    0 acres on record

    0 ac