The official record as of 10:09am today
The Lion Canyon Fire is on the interagency wildfire record at 0 acres in Montrose 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.
51 days
on record — first written down on
Monday 24 August
at 10:52am local time, starting at 0 acres.
38.343, -109.056lat, lon
is the official point of origin on the interagency record.
Conditions measured 14.6 miles from the fire: 49°F, air at 78% humidity, a 7 mph wind out of the north.
Five other fires are burning inside the same view. Antecedent Fire started on Sunday 13 September, 12.3 miles east, and has reached 0 acres. Subsequent Fire started on Sunday 13 September, 12.6 miles north-east, and has reached 0 acres. Rock Mesa Fire started on Saturday 12 September, 14.1 miles north-east, and has reached 0 acres. Sewemup Fire started on Saturday 12 September, 14.2 miles north-east, and has reached 0 acres. Blue Mesa Fire started on Saturday 12 September, 15.3 miles north-east, 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.
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Monday 24 August
First reported
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Monday 24 August
0 acres on record
0 ac