Awatchfire

Pitkin County, Colorado

Kittle Fire

Burning 5.0 miles north of Woody Creek and 9.6 miles north-east of Snowmass Village, since Wednesday 19 August.

Map of Colorado. The Kittle Fire burns 110 miles from Denver, and 110 miles from the state capital, Denver.
The fire sits 110 miles from Denver.

25

acres burned so far

56

days burning so far

—

no share of the perimeter reported held yet

The official record as of 10:09am today

The Kittle Fire is on the interagency wildfire record at 25 acres in Pitkin 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.

56 days

on record — first written down on Wednesday 19 August at 2:43pm local time, starting at 10 acres.

39.342, -106.865lat, lon

is the official point of origin on the interagency record.

Conditions measured 12.3 miles from the fire: 36°F, air at 99% humidity, a 2 mph wind out of the east.

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. Wednesday 19 August

    First reported at 10 acres

    10 ac
  2. Sunday 23 August

    25 acres on record

    25 ac