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Garfield County, Colorado

Roan Creek Fire

Burning 5.5 miles north-west of De Beque and 11.7 miles south-west of Parachute, since Tuesday 25 August.

Map of Colorado. The Roan Creek Fire burns 182 miles from Denver, and 182 miles from the state capital, Denver.
The fire sits 182 miles from Denver.

0

acres burned so far

50

days burning so far

—

no share of the perimeter reported held yet

The official record as of 10:09am today

The Roan 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.

Undetermined

The cause has not yet been determined.

50 days

on record — first written down on Tuesday 25 August at 4:27pm local time, starting at 0 acres.

39.380, -108.255lat, lon

is the official point of origin on the interagency record.

Conditions measured 12.0 miles from the fire: 44°F, air at 70% humidity, a 19 mph wind out of the north-east.

Four other fires are burning inside the same view. Pinyon Fire started 111 minutes before this one, 4.7 miles east, and has reached 3 acres. Powerline Fire started 31 minutes before this one, 5.0 miles east, and has reached 0 acres. Clear Fire started on Wednesday 16 September, 9.2 miles north-west, and has reached 0 acres. 310 Fire started on Thursday 6 August, 15.1 miles east, and has reached 603 acres with 11 people assigned. 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 25 August

    First reported

  2. Wednesday 26 August

    0 acres on record

    0 ac