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Conejos County, Colorado

Ponchas Peak Fire

Burning 9.9 miles south-east of Manassa and 11.1 miles east of Antonito, since Sunday 23 August.

Map of Colorado. The Ponchas Peak Fire burns 192 miles from Denver, and 192 miles from the state capital, Denver.
The fire sits 192 miles from Denver.

0

acres burned so far

53

days burning so far

—

no share of the perimeter reported held yet

The official record as of 10:09am today

The Ponchas Peak Fire is on the interagency wildfire record at 0 acres in Conejos 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.

53 days

on record — first written down on Sunday 23 August at 9:13am local time, starting at 0 acres.

37.074, -105.809lat, lon

is the official point of origin on the interagency record.

Conditions measured 21.9 miles from the fire: 48°F, air at 46% humidity, a 8 mph wind out of the north.

Smoke has been recorded lying over this ground once so far. The thickest of it was thin between 6:00am and 9:00am local time. The last of those windows closed 121 hours ago, so what is overhead now is not known.

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. Sunday 23 August

    First reported

  2. Sunday 23 August

    0 acres on record

    0 ac