Awatchfire

Montezuma County, Colorado

Drift Fire

Burning 12.9 miles south-west of Rico and 16.7 miles north-east of Dolores, since Thursday 27 August.

Map of Colorado. The Drift Fire burns 235 miles from Denver, and 235 miles from the state capital, Denver.
The fire sits 235 miles from Denver.

0

acres burned so far

36

hours burning so far

no share of the perimeter reported held yet

The official record as of 10:37pm today

The Drift Fire is on the interagency wildfire record at 0 acres in Montezuma 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.

36 hours

on record — first written down on Thursday 27 August at 10:12am local time, starting at 0 acres.

Type 5 Incident

is the incident-management level assigned to it.

37.595, -108.235lat, lon

is the official point of origin on the interagency record.

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.