Awatchfire

Mesa County, Colorado

Rapid Creek 2 Fire

Burning 2.6 miles north-east of Palisade and 8.4 miles north-east of Clifton, since Tuesday 11 August.

Map of Colorado. The Rapid Creek 2 Fire burns 189 miles from Denver, and 189 miles from the state capital, Denver.
The fire sits 189 miles from Denver.

0

acres burned so far

65

days burning so far

—

no share of the perimeter reported held yet

The official record as of 10:09am today

The Rapid Creek 2 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.

Human

is the cause on the official record.

65 days

on record — first written down on Tuesday 11 August at 8:20am local time, starting at 0 acres.

39.134, -108.322lat, lon

is the official point of origin on the interagency record.

Conditions measured 7.9 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 canyon Fire started on Monday 24 August, 9.5 miles north-west, and has reached 0 acres. Powderhorn Fire started on Monday 31 August, 11.0 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.

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 11 August

    First reported

  2. Tuesday 25 August

    0 acres on record

    0 ac