Awatchfire

Garfield County, Colorado

Elk Park Fire

Burning 7.1 miles north of Silt and 8.2 miles north-east of Rifle, since Tuesday 15 September.

Map of Colorado. The Elk Park Fire burns 150 miles from Denver, and 150 miles from the state capital, Denver.
The fire sits 150 miles from Denver.

0

acres burned so far

30

days burning so far

—

no share of the perimeter reported held yet

The official record as of 10:09am today

The Elk Park 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.

30 days

on record — first written down on Tuesday 15 September at 7:29am local time, starting at 0 acres.

39.643, -107.702lat, lon

is the official point of origin on the interagency record.

Conditions measured 9.4 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. Juniper Fire started 1364 minutes after this one, 2.0 miles north-west, and has reached 0 acres. Rifle Creek Fire started on Sunday 23 August, 3.6 miles west, and has reached 0 acres. Mm 97 Fire started on Friday 21 August, 7.2 miles south, and has reached 0 acres. Edward Springs Fire started on Friday 4 September, 10.5 miles north-east, and has reached 0 acres. Meadow Creek Fire started 1346 minutes before this one, 10.9 miles north-east, and has reached 0 acres. Dry Creek Fire started on Tuesday 23 June, 11.4 miles south, and has reached 316 acres with 114 people assigned. 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. Tuesday 15 September

    First reported

  2. Tuesday 15 September

    0 acres on record

    0 ac