Helmers Gulch Fire

The official record as of 7:59pm today

The Helmers Gulch 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.

Conditions measured 2.4 miles from the fire: 60°F, air at 78% humidity, a 12 mph wind out of the north-west.

Five other fires are burning inside the same view. 310 Fire started on Thursday 6 August, 11.2 miles west, and has reached 603 acres with 11 people assigned. Balzac Fire started 1402 minutes before this one, 9.6 miles west, and has reached 0 acres. Kimball Fire started on Monday 24 August, 12.9 miles south-west, and has reached 0 acres. Mm 97 Fire started on Friday 21 August, 7.6 miles north-east, and has reached 0 acres. Rifle Creek Fire started on Sunday 23 August, 9.4 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.

Smoke has been recorded lying over this ground four times so far. The thickest of it was thin between 6:00am and 9:00am local time. The last of those windows closed 11 hours ago, so what is overhead now is not known.

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.