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.
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Tuesday 11 August
First reported
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Tuesday 25 August
0 acres on record
0 ac