Awatchfire

Garfield County, Colorado

Rifle Creek Fire

Burning 6.1 miles north of Rifle and 8.0 miles north-west of Silt, since Sunday 23 August.

Map of Colorado. The Rifle Creek Fire burns 154 miles from Denver, and 154 miles from the state capital, Denver.
The fire sits 154 miles from Denver.

0

acres burned so far

5

days burning so far

no share of the perimeter reported held yet

The official record as of 10:37pm today

The Rifle Creek Fire is on the interagency wildfire record at 0 acres in Garfield 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.

5 days

on record — first written down on Sunday 23 August at 5:04pm local time, starting at 0 acres.

39.625, -107.765lat, 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.