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Las Animas County, Colorado

Lake Dorothy 4 Fire

Burning 8.8 miles north-east of Raton and 11.7 miles south-east of Starkville, since Tuesday 8 September.

Map of Colorado. The Lake Dorothy 4 Fire burns 193 miles from Denver, and 193 miles from the state capital, Denver.
The fire sits 193 miles from Denver.

0

acres burned so far

36

days burning so far

—

no share of the perimeter reported held yet

The official record as of 10:09am today

The Lake Dorothy 4 Fire is on the interagency wildfire record at 0 acres in Las Animas 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.

36 days

on record — first written down on Tuesday 8 September at 11:05am local time, starting at 0 acres.

37.000, -104.370lat, lon

is the official point of origin on the interagency record.

Four other fires are burning inside the same view. Schwachheim Fire started on Sunday 12 April, 0.8 miles north, and has reached 1,582 acres with 1 people assigned. Sw3 Fire started on Wednesday 2 September, 2.2 miles west, and has reached 145 acres. IA 1711 - Little Fisher's Mesa Fire started 26 minutes after this one, 3.1 miles north, and has reached 0 acres. Post Fire started on Tuesday 11 August, 6.4 miles north-west, and has reached 4,335 acres with 1 people assigned. 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. Tuesday 8 September

    First reported

  2. Tuesday 8 September

    0 acres on record

    0 ac