Awatchfire

Mesa County, Colorado

Moon Canyon Fire

Burning 21.5 miles north-west of Nucla and 23.5 miles north-west of Naturita, since Saturday 12 September.

Map of Colorado. The Moon Canyon Fire burns 228 miles from Denver, and 228 miles from the state capital, Denver.
The fire sits 228 miles from Denver.

0

acres burned so far

33

days burning so far

—

no share of the perimeter reported held yet

The official record as of 3:20am today

The Moon Canyon Fire is on the interagency wildfire record at 0 acres in Mesa 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.

33 days

on record — first written down on Saturday 12 September at 2:55pm local time, starting at 0 acres.

38.501, -108.809lat, lon

is the official point of origin on the interagency record.

Conditions measured 21.4 miles from the fire: 31°F, air at 88% humidity, a 3 mph wind out of the south-west.

Six other fires are burning inside the same view. Blue Creek Fire started 1 minutes before this one, 0.3 miles west, and has reached 0 acres. Azul Mesa Fire started 1171 minutes after this one, 1.7 miles north-west, and has reached 0 acres. Blue Mesa Fire started 14 minutes before this one, 2.0 miles south-west, and has reached 0 acres. Where Fire started 1188 minutes after this one, 2.2 miles east, and has reached 0 acres. Yellowbird Fire started 8 minutes after this one, 4.8 miles north-east, and has reached 0 acres. Sewemup Fire started 9 minutes before this one, 5.2 miles west, 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 12 September

    First reported

  2. Saturday 12 September

    0 acres on record

    0 ac