Awatchfire

Mesa County, Colorado

Powderhorn Fire

Burning 12.0 miles east of Palisade and 16.0 miles south-west of Collbran, since Monday 31 August.

Map of Colorado. The Powderhorn Fire burns 181 miles from Denver, and 181 miles from the state capital, Denver.
The fire sits 181 miles from Denver.

0

acres burned so far

45

days burning so far

—

no share of the perimeter reported held yet

The official record as of 10:09am today

The Powderhorn 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.

45 days

on record — first written down on Monday 31 August at 9:59am local time, starting at 0 acres.

39.055, -108.144lat, lon

is the official point of origin on the interagency record.

Conditions measured 18.0 miles from the fire: 44°F, air at 70% humidity, a 19 mph wind out of the north-east.

Two other fires are burning inside the same view. Cottonwood Creek Fire started on Wednesday 16 September, 10.5 miles north-east, and has reached 0 acres. Rapid Creek 2 Fire started on Tuesday 11 August, 11.0 miles north-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. Monday 31 August

    First reported

  2. Monday 31 August

    0 acres on record

    0 ac