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Las Animas County, Colorado

Post Fire

Burning 6.1 miles south-east of Starkville and 7.4 miles south-east of Trinidad, since Tuesday 11 August.

Map of Colorado. The Post Fire burns 187 miles from Denver, and 187 miles from the state capital, Denver.
The fire sits 187 miles from Denver.

4,343

acres burned so far — about 7 square miles

17

days burning so far

90%

of the perimeter held

The official record as of 10:37pm today

The Post Fire is on the interagency wildfire record at 4,343 acres in Las Animas 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.

90% held

90% of the perimeter is being reported as held.

1people

are assigned to the fire on the latest interagency record.

Natural

is the cause on the official record.

17 days

on record — first written down on Tuesday 11 August at 6:55pm local time, starting at 1,000 acres.

Type 4 Incident

is the incident-management level assigned to it.

37.082, -104.421lat, lon

is the official point of origin on the interagency record.

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.