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Mesa County, Colorado

Rock Mesa Fire

Burning 23.6 miles north-east of La Sal and 26.1 miles east of Castle Valley, since Saturday 12 September.

Map of Colorado. The Rock Mesa Fire burns 233 miles from Denver, and 233 miles from the state capital, Denver.
The fire sits 233 miles from Denver.

0

acres burned so far

32

days burning so far

—

no share of the perimeter reported held yet

The official record as of 10:09am today

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

32 days

on record — first written down on Saturday 12 September at 3:09pm local time, starting at 0 acres.

38.523, -108.934lat, lon

is the official point of origin on the interagency record.

Conditions measured 24.9 miles from the fire: 43°F, air at 76% humidity, a 8 mph wind out of the north-east.

Six other fires are burning inside the same view. Sewemup Fire started 24 minutes before this one, 1.8 miles south-east, and has reached 0 acres. Azul Mesa Fire started 1156 minutes after this one, 5.4 miles east, and has reached 0 acres. Blue Mesa Fire started 28 minutes before this one, 5.9 miles south-east, and has reached 0 acres. Blue Creek Fire started 16 minutes before this one, 6.7 miles east, and has reached 0 acres. Moon Canyon Fire started 15 minutes before this one, 6.9 miles east, and has reached 0 acres. Subsequent Fire started 1217 minutes after this one, 8.9 miles south-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. Saturday 12 September

    First reported

  2. Sunday 13 September

    0 acres on record

    0 ac