Awatchfire

Gilpin County, Colorado

Horseshoe Fire

Burning 0.9 miles south-east of Black Hawk and 3.4 miles north-east of Idaho Springs, since Tuesday 6 October.

Map of Colorado. The Horseshoe Fire burns 32 miles from Denver, and 32 miles from the state capital, Denver.
The fire sits 32 miles from Denver.

0

acres burned so far

9

days burning so far

—

no share of the perimeter reported held yet

The official record as of 3:20am today

The Horseshoe Fire is on the interagency wildfire record at 0 acres in Gilpin 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.

Undetermined

The cause has not yet been determined.

9 days

on record — first written down on Tuesday 6 October at 9:56am local time, starting at 0 acres.

39.795, -105.479lat, lon

is the official point of origin on the interagency record.

Conditions measured 4.0 miles from the fire: 25°F, air at 97% humidity, a 0 mph wind out of the north.

Smoke has been recorded lying over this ground once so far. The thickest of it was thin between 6:00am and 9:00am local time. The last of those windows closed 138 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.

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. Tuesday 6 October

    First reported

  2. Tuesday 6 October

    0 acres on record

    0 ac