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Montezuma County, Colorado

Phil Fire

Burning 5.4 miles east of Cortez and 8.0 miles south of Dolores, since Tuesday 15 September.

Map of Colorado. The Phil Fire burns 256 miles from Denver, and 256 miles from the state capital, Denver.
The fire sits 256 miles from Denver.

0

acres burned so far

30

days burning so far

—

no share of the perimeter reported held yet

The official record as of 10:09am today

The Phil Fire is on the interagency wildfire record at 0 acres in Montezuma 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.

30 days

on record — first written down on Tuesday 15 September at 8:13am local time, starting at 0 acres.

Type 5 Incident

is the incident-management level assigned to it.

37.360, -108.479lat, lon

is the official point of origin on the interagency record.

Conditions measured 5.6 miles from the fire: 47°F, air at 68% humidity, a 5 mph wind out of the south.

Six other fires are burning inside the same view. Weber Fire started 57 minutes before this one, 9.2 miles south-east, and has reached 0 acres. Wickiup Fire started on Tuesday 22 September, 10.8 miles south, and has reached 0 acres. Lung Fish Fire started on Sunday 30 August, 10.8 miles south, and has reached 0 acres. Kennel Fire started on Saturday 19 September, 11.5 miles west, and has reached 0 acres. House 27 Fire started on Sunday 30 August, 11.6 miles south, and has reached 0 acres. Park Fire started 32 minutes after this one, 11.8 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. Tuesday 15 September

    First reported

  2. Tuesday 15 September

    0 acres on record

    0 ac