Awatchfire

Boulder County, Colorado

Skunk Canyon Fire

Burning 3.4 miles north-west of Eldorado Springs and 3.8 miles south-west of Boulder, since Wednesday 7 October.

Map of Colorado. The Skunk Canyon Fire burns 26 miles from Denver, and 26 miles from the state capital, Denver.
The fire sits 26 miles from Denver.

0

acres burned so far

8

days burning so far

—

no share of the perimeter reported held yet

The official record as of 10:09am today

The Skunk Canyon Fire is on the interagency wildfire record at 0 acres in Boulder 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.

Human

is the cause on the official record.

8 days

on record — first written down on Wednesday 7 October at 6:55am local time, starting at 0 acres.

39.978, -105.290lat, lon

is the official point of origin on the interagency record.

Conditions measured 1.4 miles from the fire: 50°F, air at 56% humidity, a 4 mph wind out of the north-east.

Smoke has been recorded lying over this ground two times so far. The thickest of it was moderate 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. Wednesday 7 October

    First reported

  2. Wednesday 7 October

    0 acres on record

    0 ac