Garfield County, Colorado
Burning 6.1 miles north of Rifle and 8.0 miles north-west of Silt, since Sunday 23 August.
0
acres burned so far
52
days burning so far
—
no share of the perimeter reported held yet
The official record as of 10:09am 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.
52 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.
Conditions measured 7.8 miles from the fire: 49°F, air at 67% humidity, a 6 mph wind out of the north.
Six other fires are burning inside the same view. Elk Park Fire started on Tuesday 15 September, 3.6 miles east, and has reached 0 acres. Juniper Fire started on Wednesday 16 September, 3.7 miles north-east, and has reached 0 acres. Mm 97 Fire started on Friday 21 August, 8.0 miles south-east, and has reached 0 acres. Helmers Gulch Fire started on Saturday 29 August, 9.4 miles south, and has reached 0 acres. Dry Creek Fire started on Tuesday 23 June, 10.0 miles south, and has reached 316 acres with 114 people assigned. Anvil Points Fire started on Tuesday 15 September, 11.7 miles south-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.
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.
Sunday 23 August
First reported
Sunday 23 August
0 acres on record
0 ac