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Archuleta County, Colorado

Medicine Creek Fire

Burning 12.8 miles west of Piedra and 15.1 miles north-east of Bayfield, since Friday 28 August.

Map of Colorado. The Medicine Creek Fire burns 213 miles from Denver, and 213 miles from the state capital, Denver.
The fire sits 213 miles from Denver.

0

acres burned so far

48

days burning so far

—

no share of the perimeter reported held yet

The official record as of 10:09am today

The Medicine Creek Fire is on the interagency wildfire record at 0 acres in Archuleta 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.

48 days

on record — first written down on Friday 28 August at 8:17am local time, starting at 0 acres.

37.379, -107.388lat, lon

is the official point of origin on the interagency record.

Conditions measured 5.0 miles from the fire: 48°F, air at 57% humidity, a 2 mph wind out of the east.

Three other fires are burning inside the same view. Weminuche creek Fire started on Sunday 23 August, 9.0 miles east, and has reached 0 acres. Snow Springs Fire started on Monday 24 August, 10.2 miles south-east, and has reached 1 acres. Ignacio Creek Fire started on Tuesday 15 September, 15.1 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. Friday 28 August

    First reported

  2. Friday 28 August

    0 acres on record

    0 ac