Awatchfire

Montrose County, Colorado

Fork Fire

Burning 7.1 miles north of Nucla and 10.4 miles north of Naturita, since Monday 24 August.

Map of Colorado. The Fork Fire burns 220 miles from Denver, and 220 miles from the state capital, Denver.
The fire sits 220 miles from Denver.

0

acres burned so far

51

days burning so far

—

no share of the perimeter reported held yet

The official record as of 10:09am today

The Fork Fire is on the interagency wildfire record at 0 acres in Montrose 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.

51 days

on record — first written down on Monday 24 August at 12:55pm local time, starting at 0 acres.

38.369, -108.566lat, lon

is the official point of origin on the interagency record.

Conditions measured 9.4 miles from the fire: 52°F, air at 60% humidity, a 5 mph wind out of the north-east.

Six other fires are burning inside the same view. Stinking Spring Fire started on Tuesday 25 August, 1.8 miles south-east, and has reached 0 acres. Pack Trail Fire started on Saturday 12 September, 1.9 miles south, and has reached 0 acres. Cow Bros Fire started on Sunday 13 September, 3.2 miles north-west, and has reached 0 acres. Adobe Fire started 171 minutes before this one, 3.8 miles south-east, and has reached 0 acres. Carroll Fire started 167 minutes before this one, 4.0 miles west, and has reached 0 acres. Black Pinto Fire started 139 minutes before this one, 4.8 miles south-east, 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. Monday 24 August

    First reported

  2. Monday 24 August

    0 acres on record

    0 ac