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Montezuma County, Colorado

Lung Fish Fire

Burning 12.0 miles south-east of Cortez and 13.5 miles south-west of Mancos, since Sunday 30 August.

Map of Colorado. The Lung Fish Fire burns 262 miles from Denver, and 262 miles from the state capital, Denver.
The fire sits 262 miles from Denver.

0

acres burned so far

45

days burning so far

—

no share of the perimeter reported held yet

The official record as of 10:09am today

The Lung Fish Fire is on the interagency wildfire record at 0 acres in Montezuma 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.

45 days

on record — first written down on Sunday 30 August at 7:55pm local time, starting at 0 acres.

37.203, -108.460lat, lon

is the official point of origin on the interagency record.

Conditions measured 1.7 miles from the fire: 51°F, air at 63% humidity, a 3 mph wind out of the south-east.

Six other fires are burning inside the same view. House 27 Fire started 198 minutes before this one, 1.9 miles south-west, and has reached 0 acres. Park Fire started on Tuesday 15 September, 2.8 miles west, and has reached 0 acres. Wickiup Fire started on Tuesday 22 September, 3.3 miles west, and has reached 0 acres. Rock Canyon Fire started on Tuesday 1 September, 5.8 miles south-west, and has reached 0 acres. Cow Camp Fire started on Thursday 27 August, 9.5 miles south-east, and has reached 0 acres. Weber Fire started on Tuesday 15 September, 9.7 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.

  1. Sunday 30 August

    First reported

  2. Tuesday 1 September

    0 acres on record

    0 ac