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Rio Blanco County, Colorado

Keystone Fire

Burning 19.1 miles north-west of Meeker and 21.1 miles south of Maybell, since Tuesday 21 July.

Map of Colorado. The Keystone Fire burns 177 miles from Denver, and 177 miles from the state capital, Denver.
The fire sits 177 miles from Denver.

3,042

acres burned so far — about 5 square miles

85

days burning so far

100%

of the perimeter held

The official record as of 10:09am today

The Keystone Fire is on the interagency wildfire record at 3,042 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.

100% held

100% of the perimeter is being reported as held.

42people

are assigned to the fire on the latest interagency record.

Natural

is the cause on the official record.

85 days

on record — first written down on Tuesday 21 July at 11:22am local time, starting at 3 acres.

Type 3 Incident

is the incident-management level assigned to it.

40.221, -108.178lat, lon

is the official point of origin on the interagency record.

Conditions measured 18.0 miles from the fire: 41°F, air at 88% humidity, a 17 mph wind out of the north.

Two other fires are burning inside the same view. Big Smizer Fire started on Saturday 29 August, 6.6 miles south-west, and has reached 0 acres. Wolf Fire started on Tuesday 15 September, 9.6 miles north, 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. Tuesday 21 July

    First reported at 3 acres

    3 ac
  2. Monday 5 October

    3,042 acres on record — 100% contained, 42 personnel assigned

    3,042 ac · 100% held · 42 crew