Awatchfire

Larimer County, Colorado

Spring Gulch Fire

Burning 4.4 miles north-west of Lyons and 10.6 miles north of Altona, since Thursday 8 October.

Map of Colorado. The Spring Gulch Fire burns 42 miles from Denver, and 42 miles from the state capital, Denver.
The fire sits 42 miles from Denver.

1

acres burned so far

6

days burning so far

—

no share of the perimeter reported held yet

The official record as of 10:09am today

The Spring Gulch Fire is on the interagency wildfire record at 1 acres in Larimer 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.

6 days

on record — first written down on Thursday 8 October at 1:14pm local time, starting at 1 acres.

40.275, -105.316lat, lon

is the official point of origin on the interagency record.

Conditions measured 7.0 miles from the fire: 48°F, air at 51% humidity, a 8 mph wind out of the north.

Five other fires are burning inside the same view. Burnett Gulch Fire started on Monday 7 September, 1.1 miles north-east, and has reached 3 acres. Moose Mountain Fire started on Friday 28 August, 2.8 miles north-west, and has reached 2 acres. Dry Creek Fire started on Tuesday 6 October, 7.5 miles south-west, and has reached 6 acres. Iron Clad Fire started on Monday 24 August, 12.6 miles south-west, and has reached 1 acres. Ironclad Fire started on Monday 24 August, 12.6 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.

Smoke has been recorded lying over this ground once so far. The thickest of it was thin 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. Thursday 8 October

    First reported at 1 acres

    1 ac

  2. Thursday 8 October

    1 acres on record

    1 ac