The official record as of 10:09am today
The Gold Mountain Fire is on the interagency wildfire record at 39,747 acres in Ouray 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.
92% held
92% of the perimeter is being reported as held.
64people
are assigned to the fire on the latest interagency record.
Undetermined
The cause has not yet been determined.
109 days
on record — first written down on
Saturday 27 June
at 5:33pm local time, starting at 0 acres.
Type 3 Incident
is the incident-management level assigned to it.
38.052, -107.682lat, lon
is the official point of origin on the interagency record.
Conditions measured 23.3 miles from the fire: 34°F, air at 99% humidity, a 4 mph wind out of the north.
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.
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Saturday 27 June
First reported
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Sunday 23 August
39,718 acres on record — 87% contained, 64 personnel assigned
39,718 ac · 87% held · 64 crew
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Wednesday 26 August
Grew to 39,721 acres — 86 personnel
39,721 ac · 87% held · 86 crew
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Thursday 27 August
Grew to 39,734 acres — 88 personnel
39,734 ac · 87% held · 88 crew
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Saturday 29 August
Grew to 39,744 acres — 87 personnel
39,744 ac · 87% held · 87 crew
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Sunday 30 August
Containment 92% — 79 personnel
39,744 ac · 92% held · 79 crew
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Friday 4 September
Grew to 39,747 acres — 64 personnel
39,747 ac · 92% held · 64 crew
