Burning 24.3 miles north-east of La Sal and 25.6 miles north-west of Nucla, since Saturday 12 September.
The fire sits 232 miles from Denver.
0
acres burned so far
32
days burning so far
—
no share of the perimeter reported held yet
The picture as of 10:09am today
The Sewemup Fire is still listed as active, and has not been looked at lately. Nothing has given off fresh heat for 120 hours.
No fresh look at this fire for 120 hours. Everything on the map below was seen before then.
Heat in the last dayHigher ground pale, valleys darkWhere another fire is recorded
120hours
since anything was last seen giving off heat — about 10:40am on Saturday, local time.
0readings
of heat in the last day. There is not yet an earlier stretch of record to compare that against.
24.7miles
is how close the heat has come to La Sal at any point in the record. In the last day the nearest heat has been None miles from it, and the closest this fire has come to Nucla is 24.2 miles, None in the last day.
1.4miles
is the furthest any heat has been seen from the point on the
official record — the width of the ground involved so far.
Four other fires are burning inside the same view. Azul Mesa Fire started 1180 minutes after this one, 3.8 miles east, and has reached 0 acres. Blue Creek Fire started 8 minutes after this one, 4.9 miles east, and has reached 0 acres. Blue Mesa Fire started 5 minutes before this one, 4.1 miles south-east, and has reached 0 acres. Rock Mesa Fire started 24 minutes after this one, 1.8 miles north-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.
Where the heat is
No cluster large enough to call a separate front. The heat is in one piece.
Conditions measured 24.3 miles from the fire: 43°F, air at 76% humidity, a 8 mph wind out of the north-east.
How it got here
One day of record on a day-34 fire
The record here begins at 10:41am on 10 Oct and runs to 10:41am on 10 Oct — 0 hours, 1 readings of heat. The fire is on day 34, so the first 33 days are missing: nothing showed up from above until the fire was large enough and the sky over it clear enough for it to be seen. There is no long arc to draw yet. What follows is what has actually happened.
The whole record, 7 frames at
1 hour
a frame. The bar along the bottom is energy released; the moving line is the clock.
Hour by hour local time
Sat 10:00amSat 10:00am
Each bar is one hour of local time, sized by how much energy the
fire gave off in it. This fire is too young for a day-against-day comparison to say
anything, so the hours are shown instead.
Day by day 1 day of record
Sat10 Octlatest
First readings
1 heat readings
Heat from 10:41am to 10:41am
Spread 1.4 miles from the recorded point at its furthest
Burning through the morning
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.
Saturday 12 September
First reported
Saturday 12 September
0 acres on record
0 ac
No containment figure has been reported for it yet. No crew count has been published for it yet. It has grown from 0 acres when it was first written down to 0 now. Nothing has looked at it for 120 hours, and the record still lists it as active.
