Awatchfire

Routt County, Colorado

Mill Creek 4 Fire

Burning 13.2 miles north-east of Hayden and 20.5 miles north-west of Steamboat Springs, since Saturday 29 August.

Map of Colorado. The Mill Creek 4 Fire burns 134 miles from Denver, and 134 miles from the state capital, Denver.
The fire sits 134 miles from Denver.

2

acres burned so far

46

days burning so far

—

no share of the perimeter reported held yet

The official record as of 10:09am today

The Mill Creek 4 Fire is on the interagency wildfire record at 2 acres in Routt 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.

46 days

on record — first written down on Saturday 29 August at 2:11pm local time, starting at 0 acres.

40.656, -107.133lat, lon

is the official point of origin on the interagency record.

Conditions measured 20.3 miles from the fire: 38°F, air at 77% humidity, a 3 mph wind out of the north.

Two other fires are burning inside the same view. 8 80 Fire started 1340 minutes after this one, 0.5 miles north, and has reached 4 acres. Ia 1345 Fire started on Monday 21 September, 2.9 miles north, 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. Saturday 29 August

    First reported

  2. Saturday 29 August

    0 acres on record

    0 ac
  3. Sunday 30 August

    Grew to 6 acres

    6 ac
  4. Sunday 30 August

    Revised to 2 acres

    2 ac