Bent County, Colorado
Burning 3.7 miles west of Las Animas and 12.2 miles east of Cheraw, since Monday 7 September.
50
acres burned so far
37
days burning so far
—
no share of the perimeter reported held yet
The official record as of 10:09am today
The Labor Day Fire is on the interagency wildfire record at 50 acres in Bent 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.
37 days
on record — first written down on Monday 7 September at 7:37pm local time, starting at 70 acres.
38.085, -103.289lat, lon
is the official point of origin on the interagency record.
Conditions measured 21.5 miles from the fire: 48°F, air at 97% humidity, a 0 mph wind out of the north.
Smoke has been recorded lying over this ground two times so far. The thickest of it was moderate 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.
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.
Monday 7 September
First reported at 70 acres
70 acTuesday 8 September
70 acres on record
70 acTuesday 8 September
Revised to 50 acres
50 ac