Helmers Gulch Fire

The official record as of 10:09am 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: 45°F, air at 80% humidity, a 4 mph wind out of the south-east.

Six other fires are burning inside the same view. Dry Creek Fire started on Tuesday 23 June, 2.0 miles east, and has reached 316 acres with 114 people assigned. Anvil Points Fire started on Tuesday 15 September, 7.6 miles west, and has reached 0 acres. Mm 97 Fire started on Friday 21 August, 7.6 miles north-east, and has reached 0 acres. Elk Mountain Fire started on Thursday 3 September, 9.4 miles south, and has reached 0 acres. Rifle Creek Fire started on Sunday 23 August, 9.4 miles north, and has reached 0 acres. Balzac Fire started 1402 minutes before this one, 9.6 miles west, 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.