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Garfield County, Colorado

Meadow Creek Fire

Burning 11.6 miles west of Carbonate and 12.4 miles north of New Castle, since Monday 14 September.

Map of Colorado. The Meadow Creek Fire burns 142 miles from Denver, and 142 miles from the state capital, Denver.
The fire sits 142 miles from Denver.

0

acres burned so far

31

days burning so far

—

no share of the perimeter reported held yet

The official record as of 10:09am today

The Meadow Creek Fire is on the interagency wildfire record at 0 acres in Garfield 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.

31 days

on record — first written down on Monday 14 September at 9:03am local time, starting at 0 acres.

39.756, -107.558lat, lon

is the official point of origin on the interagency record.

Conditions measured 4.9 miles from the fire: 36°F, air at 90% humidity, a 9 mph wind out of the north.

Six other fires are burning inside the same view. Edward Springs Fire started on Friday 4 September, 4.0 miles south-east, and has reached 0 acres. Juniper Fire started on Wednesday 16 September, 10.7 miles south-west, and has reached 0 acres. Elk Park Fire started 1346 minutes after this one, 10.9 miles south-west, and has reached 0 acres. Little Hill Fire started on Thursday 3 September, 11.8 miles north-west, and has reached 0 acres. Rifle Creek Fire started on Sunday 23 August, 14.2 miles south-west, and has reached 0 acres. Mm 97 Fire started on Friday 21 August, 15.5 miles south, 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. Monday 14 September

    First reported

  2. Monday 14 September

    0 acres on record

    0 ac