Awatchfire

Archuleta County, Colorado

Snow Springs Fire

Burning 12.3 miles south of Piedra and 13.8 miles west of Pagosa Springs, since Monday 24 August.

Map of Colorado. The Snow Springs Fire burns 214 miles from Denver, and 214 miles from the state capital, Denver.
The fire sits 214 miles from Denver.

1

acres burned so far

51

days burning so far

—

no share of the perimeter reported held yet

The official record as of 10:09am today

The Snow Springs Fire is on the interagency wildfire record at 1 acres in Archuleta 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.

51 days

on record — first written down on Monday 24 August at 12:29pm local time, starting at 0 acres.

Type 5 Incident

is the incident-management level assigned to it.

37.277, -107.253lat, lon

is the official point of origin on the interagency record.

Conditions measured 4.5 miles from the fire: 55°F, air at 52% humidity, a 3 mph wind out of the south-west.

Five other fires are burning inside the same view. Weminuche creek Fire started 1359 minutes before this one, 9.2 miles north, and has reached 0 acres. Medicine Creek Fire started on Friday 28 August, 10.2 miles north-west, and has reached 0 acres. Cat Creek Fire started on Sunday 13 September, 11.6 miles south, and has reached 0 acres. Ignacio Creek Fire started on Tuesday 15 September, 13.4 miles south-west, and has reached 0 acres. Pine Tree Fire started on Sunday 13 September, 15.1 miles south-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.

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. Monday 24 August

    First reported

  2. Monday 24 August

    0 acres on record

    0 ac

  3. Monday 24 August

    Grew to 1 acres

    1 ac