Awatchfire

Garfield County, Colorado

Edward Springs Fire

Burning 8.8 miles north of New Castle and 9.4 miles north of Chacra, since Friday 4 September.

Map of Colorado. The Edward Springs Fire burns 140 miles from Denver, and 140 miles from the state capital, Denver.
The fire sits 140 miles from Denver.

0

acres burned so far

40

days burning so far

—

no share of the perimeter reported held yet

The official record as of 10:09am today

The Edward Springs Fire is on the interagency wildfire record at 0 acres in Garfield 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.

40 days

on record — first written down on Friday 4 September at 12:03pm local time, starting at 0 acres.

Type 5 Incident

is the incident-management level assigned to it.

39.705, -107.521lat, lon

is the official point of origin on the interagency record.

Conditions measured 8.2 miles from the fire: 32°F, air at 93% humidity, a 7 mph wind out of the north.

Six other fires are burning inside the same view. Meadow Creek Fire started on Monday 14 September, 4.0 miles north-west, and has reached 0 acres. Elk Park Fire started on Tuesday 15 September, 10.5 miles south-west, and has reached 0 acres. Juniper Fire started on Wednesday 16 September, 11.1 miles west, and has reached 0 acres. Mm 97 Fire started on Friday 21 August, 13.2 miles south-west, and has reached 0 acres. Rifle Creek Fire started on Sunday 23 August, 14.1 miles south-west, and has reached 0 acres. Little Hill Fire started 1308 minutes before this one, 15.5 miles north-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.

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. Friday 4 September

    First reported

  2. Friday 4 September

    0 acres on record

    0 ac