Awatchfire

Rio Blanco County, Colorado

Hunter Fire

Burning 27.9 miles south-west of Meeker and 27.9 miles north-west of Parachute, since Thursday 3 September.

Map of Colorado. The Hunter Fire burns 182 miles from Denver, and 182 miles from the state capital, Denver.
The fire sits 182 miles from Denver.

33

acres burned so far

41

days burning so far

—

no share of the perimeter reported held yet

The official record as of 10:09am today

The Hunter Fire is on the interagency wildfire record at 33 acres in Rio Blanco 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.

41 days

on record — first written down on Thursday 3 September at 11:31am local time, starting at 0 acres.

39.800, -108.307lat, lon

is the official point of origin on the interagency record.

Conditions measured 2.3 miles from the fire: 37°F, air at 100% humidity, a 9 mph wind out of the north.

Five other fires are burning inside the same view. Ia 1313 Fire started on Tuesday 15 September, 1.7 miles north, and has reached 0 acres. McKee Fire started on Wednesday 16 September, 4.2 miles north, and has reached 0 acres. P-L Gulch Fire started on Monday 13 July, 6.8 miles north-east, and has reached 1,580 acres with 3 people assigned. Stewart Fire started on Wednesday 26 August, 7.9 miles east, and has reached 26 acres. King Fire started on Monday 31 August, 11.1 miles 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. Thursday 3 September

    First reported

  2. Thursday 3 September

    10 acres on record

    10 ac
  3. Thursday 3 September

    Grew to 33 acres

    33 ac