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Rio Blanco County, Colorado

McKee Fire

Burning 24.5 miles south-west of Meeker and 30.8 miles south-east of Rangely, since Wednesday 16 September.

Map of Colorado. The McKee Fire burns 181 miles from Denver, and 181 miles from the state capital, Denver.
The fire sits 181 miles from Denver.

0

acres burned so far

28

days burning so far

—

no share of the perimeter reported held yet

The official record as of 10:09am today

The McKee Fire is on the interagency wildfire record at 0 acres in Rio Blanco 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.

28 days

on record — first written down on Wednesday 16 September at 12:35pm local time, starting at 0 acres.

39.858, -108.283lat, lon

is the official point of origin on the interagency record.

Conditions measured 6.5 miles from the fire: 40°F, air at 93% humidity, a 10 mph wind out of the north.

Five other fires are burning inside the same view. Ia 1313 Fire started on Tuesday 15 September, 2.7 miles south-west, and has reached 0 acres. P-L Gulch Fire started on Monday 13 July, 3.3 miles east, and has reached 1,580 acres with 3 people assigned. Hunter Fire started on Thursday 3 September, 4.2 miles south, and has reached 33 acres. Stewart Fire started on Wednesday 26 August, 7.3 miles south-east, and has reached 26 acres. King Fire started on Monday 31 August, 10.1 miles 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. Wednesday 16 September

    First reported

  2. Wednesday 16 September

    0 acres on record

    0 ac