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Montezuma County, Colorado

Ferris Fire

Burning 8.8 miles north of Lewis and 14.2 miles north-west of Dolores, since Saturday 27 June.

Map of Colorado. The Ferris Fire burns 252 miles from Denver, and 252 miles from the state capital, Denver.
The fire sits 252 miles from Denver.

64,881

acres burned so far — about 101 square miles

109

days burning so far

100%

of the perimeter held

The official record as of 10:09am today

The Ferris Fire is on the interagency wildfire record at 64,881 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.

100% held

100% of the perimeter is being reported as held.

20people

are assigned to the fire on the latest interagency record.

Natural

is the cause on the official record.

109 days

on record — first written down on Saturday 27 June at 3:04pm local time, starting at 0 acres.

Type 5 Incident

is the incident-management level assigned to it.

37.629, -108.671lat, lon

is the official point of origin on the interagency record.

Conditions measured 7.5 miles from the fire: 39°F, air at 86% humidity, a 13 mph wind out of the north.

Two other fires are burning inside the same view. Dry Canyon Road Fire started on Thursday 3 September, 7.4 miles east, and has reached 0 acres. Black Snag Fire started on Saturday 19 September, 12.2 miles north, 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 27 June

    First reported

  2. Sunday 23 August

    64,881 acres on record — 100% contained, 20 personnel assigned

    64,881 ac · 100% held · 20 crew