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Montezuma County, Colorado

Rock Canyon Fire

Burning 13.8 miles south-east of Towaoc and 16.0 miles south of Cortez, since Tuesday 1 September.

Map of Colorado. The Rock Canyon Fire burns 267 miles from Denver, and 267 miles from the state capital, Denver.
The fire sits 267 miles from Denver.

0

acres burned so far

43

days burning so far

—

no share of the perimeter reported held yet

The official record as of 10:09am today

The Rock Canyon Fire is on the interagency wildfire record at 0 acres in Montezuma 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.

43 days

on record — first written down on Tuesday 1 September at 11:26am local time, starting at 0 acres.

37.126, -108.502lat, lon

is the official point of origin on the interagency record.

Conditions measured 5.1 miles from the fire: 51°F, air at 63% humidity, a 3 mph wind out of the south-east.

Six other fires are burning inside the same view. Park Fire started on Tuesday 15 September, 4.5 miles north, and has reached 0 acres. House 27 Fire started on Sunday 30 August, 4.6 miles north, and has reached 0 acres. Wickiup Fire started on Tuesday 22 September, 5.6 miles north, and has reached 0 acres. Lung Fish Fire started on Sunday 30 August, 5.8 miles north-east, and has reached 0 acres. Cow Camp Fire started on Thursday 27 August, 8.7 miles east, and has reached 0 acres. Weber Fire started on Tuesday 15 September, 15.3 miles north-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.

  1. Tuesday 1 September

    First reported

  2. Tuesday 1 September

    0 acres on record

    0 ac