Awatchfire

Archuleta County, Colorado

Rio Blanco Fire

Burning 9.6 miles south of Pagosa Springs and 11.8 miles north of Dulce, since Tuesday 28 July.

Map of Colorado. The Rio Blanco Fire burns 215 miles from Denver, and 215 miles from the state capital, Denver.
The fire sits 215 miles from Denver.

1,388

acres burned so far — about 2 square miles

78

days burning so far

100%

of the perimeter held

The official record as of 10:09am today

The Rio Blanco Fire is on the interagency wildfire record at 1,388 acres in Archuleta 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.

100% held

100% of the perimeter is being reported as held.

26people

are assigned to the fire on the latest interagency record.

Natural

is the cause on the official record.

78 days

on record — first written down on Tuesday 28 July at 3:11pm local time, starting at 16 acres.

Type 3 Incident

is the incident-management level assigned to it.

37.125, -106.985lat, lon

is the official point of origin on the interagency record.

Conditions measured 9.2 miles from the fire: 47°F, air at 57% humidity, a 3 mph wind out of the west.

Two other fires are burning inside the same view. Spring Basin Fire started on Monday 24 August, 10.0 miles north-east, and has reached 0 acres. Cat Creek Fire started on Sunday 13 September, 11.4 miles 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.

Smoke has been recorded lying over this ground once so far. The thickest of it was thin between 6:00am and 9:00am local time. The last of those windows closed 121 hours ago, so what is overhead now is not known.

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 28 July

    First reported at 16 acres

    16 ac

  2. Sunday 23 August

    1,388 acres on record — 100% contained, 26 personnel assigned

    1,388 ac · 100% held · 26 crew