Awatchfire

Mesa County, Colorado

Island Fire

Burning 7.9 miles south of Orchard Mesa and 11.1 miles south of Clifton, since Thursday 3 September.

Map of Colorado. The Island Fire burns 203 miles from Denver, and 203 miles from the state capital, Denver.
The fire sits 203 miles from Denver.

0

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 Island Fire is on the interagency wildfire record at 0 acres in Mesa 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.

41 days

on record — first written down on Thursday 3 September at 1:26pm local time, starting at 0 acres.

38.924, -108.521lat, lon

is the official point of origin on the interagency record.

Conditions measured 12.2 miles from the fire: 43°F, air at 82% humidity, a 8 mph wind out of the north-east.

Two other fires are burning inside the same view. north east creek Fire started on Monday 24 August, 2.2 miles south, and has reached 0 acres. Steamboat Fire started on Monday 14 September, 15.0 miles south, 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

    0 acres on record

    0 ac