Awatchfire

Boulder County, Colorado

Ironclad Fire

Burning 3.8 miles north of Hidden Lake and 4.1 miles north-west of Bark Ranch, since Monday 24 August.

Map of Colorado. The Ironclad Fire burns 43 miles from Denver, and 43 miles from the state capital, Denver.
The fire sits 43 miles from Denver.

0

acres burned so far

51

days burning so far

—

no share of the perimeter reported held yet

The official record as of 10:09am today

The Ironclad Fire is on the interagency wildfire record at 0 acres in Boulder 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.

51 days

on record — first written down on Monday 24 August at 1:23pm local time, starting at 1 acres.

40.158, -105.499lat, lon

is the official point of origin on the interagency record.

Conditions measured 3.7 miles from the fire: 39°F, air at 73% humidity, a 5 mph wind out of the north-east.

Five other fires are burning inside the same view. Iron Clad Fire started 0 minutes after this one, 0.0 miles north, and has reached 1 acres. Dry Creek Fire started on Tuesday 6 October, 5.4 miles north-east, and has reached 6 acres. Moose Mountain Fire started on Friday 28 August, 12.5 miles north-east, and has reached 2 acres. Spring Gulch Fire started on Thursday 8 October, 12.6 miles north-east, and has reached 1 acres. Burnett Gulch Fire started on Monday 7 September, 13.6 miles north-east, and has reached 3 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 once so far. The thickest of it was thin between 6:00am and 9:00am local time. The last of those windows closed 121 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. Monday 24 August

    First reported at 1 acres

    1 ac
  2. Monday 24 August

    1 acres on record

    1 ac
  3. Tuesday 25 August

    Revised to 0 acres

    0 ac