Rio Blanco County, Colorado
Burning 21.3 miles south-west of Meeker and 30.9 miles north of Parachute, since Monday 13 July.
1,580
acres burned so far — about 2 square miles
93
days burning so far
100%
of the perimeter held
The official record as of 10:09am today
The P-L Gulch Fire is on the interagency wildfire record at 1,580 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.
100% held
100% of the perimeter is being reported as held.
3people
are assigned to the fire on the latest interagency record.
Human
is the cause on the official record.
93 days
on record — first written down on Monday 13 July at 12:36pm local time, starting at 0 acres.
Type 4 Incident
is the incident-management level assigned to it.
39.874, -108.224lat, lon
is the official point of origin on the interagency record.
Conditions measured 9.0 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. McKee Fire started on Wednesday 16 September, 3.3 miles west, and has reached 0 acres. Stewart Fire started on Wednesday 26 August, 5.5 miles south-east, and has reached 26 acres. Ia 1313 Fire started on Tuesday 15 September, 5.7 miles south-west, and has reached 0 acres. Hunter Fire started on Thursday 3 September, 6.8 miles south-west, and has reached 33 acres. King Fire started on Monday 31 August, 7.6 miles south-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.
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.
Monday 13 July
First reported
Monday 5 October
1,580 acres on record — 100% contained, 3 personnel assigned
1,580 ac · 100% held · 3 crew