Mesa County, Colorado
Burning 11.1 miles north-east of Collbran and 11.7 miles south-east of Battlement Mesa, since Thursday 3 September.
0
acres burned so far
42
days burning so far
—
no share of the perimeter reported held yet
The official record as of 10:09am today
The Elk Mountain 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.
42 days
on record — first written down on Thursday 3 September at 7:01am local time, starting at 0 acres.
39.357, -107.822lat, lon
is the official point of origin on the interagency record.
Conditions measured 11.4 miles from the fire: 45°F, air at 80% humidity, a 4 mph wind out of the south-east.
Six other fires are burning inside the same view. Kimball Fire started on Monday 24 August, 6.0 miles west, and has reached 0 acres. Helmers Gulch Fire started on Saturday 29 August, 9.4 miles north, and has reached 0 acres. Dry Creek Fire started on Tuesday 23 June, 9.5 miles north-east, and has reached 316 acres with 114 people assigned. 310 Fire started on Thursday 6 August, 10.5 miles north-west, and has reached 603 acres with 11 people assigned. Anvil Points Fire started on Tuesday 15 September, 11.6 miles north-west, and has reached 0 acres. Balzac Fire started on Friday 28 August, 11.8 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.
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.
Thursday 3 September
First reported
Thursday 3 September
0 acres on record
0 ac