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Mesa County, Colorado

Dolores River Fire

Burning 26.9 miles east of Castle Valley and 31.1 miles north-east of Spanish Valley, since Saturday 12 September.

Map of Colorado. The Dolores River Fire burns 228 miles from Denver, and 228 miles from the state capital, Denver.
The fire sits 228 miles from Denver.

0

acres burned so far

32

days burning so far

—

no share of the perimeter reported held yet

The official record as of 10:09am today

The Dolores River 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.

32 days

on record — first written down on Saturday 12 September at 2:48pm local time, starting at 0 acres.

38.665, -108.898lat, lon

is the official point of origin on the interagency record.

Conditions measured 18.2 miles from the fire: 38°F, air at 84% humidity, a 9 mph wind out of the north-east.

Six other fires are burning inside the same view. Lumsden Fire started on Saturday 10 October, 5.0 miles west, and has reached 0 acres. Yellowbird Fire started 14 minutes after this one, 9.8 miles south-east, and has reached 0 acres. Rock Mesa Fire started 21 minutes after this one, 10.0 miles south, and has reached 0 acres. Sewemup Fire started 3 minutes before this one, 10.6 miles south, and has reached 0 acres. Azul Mesa Fire started 1177 minutes after this one, 11.0 miles south, and has reached 0 acres. Blue Creek Fire started 5 minutes after this one, 12.2 miles south, 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. Saturday 12 September

    First reported

  2. Saturday 12 September

    0 acres on record

    0 ac