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Rio Blanco County, Colorado

Stewart Fire

Burning 21.7 miles south-west of Meeker and 25.8 miles north of Parachute, since Wednesday 26 August.

Map of Colorado. The Stewart Fire burns 174 miles from Denver, and 174 miles from the state capital, Denver.
The fire sits 174 miles from Denver.

26

acres burned so far

49

days burning so far

—

no share of the perimeter reported held yet

The picture as of 10:09am today

The Stewart Fire is still listed as active, and has not been looked at lately. Nothing has given off fresh heat for 1182 hours.

No fresh look at this fire for 1182 hours. Everything on the map below was seen before then.

Shaded relief map of the Stewart Fire. Amber flames mark every place that gave off heat in the last day; the shading is the shape of the ground.
Heat in the last day Higher ground pale, valleys dark Where another fire is recorded

1182hours

since anything was last seen giving off heat — about 4:00am on Thursday, local time.

0readings

of heat in the last day. There is not yet an earlier stretch of record to compare that against.

21.7miles

is how close the heat has come to Meeker 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 Parachute is 25.6 miles, None in the last day.

0.3miles

is the furthest any heat has been seen from the point on the official record — the width of the ground involved so far.

Another fire is burning inside the same view. King Fire started on Monday 31 August, 3.3 miles east, and has reached 0 acres. Its heat is counted against it, not against this fire, and the pale ring on the map marks where it is recorded.

One larger fire is burning outside this frame: P-L Gulch Fire 5.5 miles north-west at 1,580 acres. None of their heat is counted here.

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 9.4 miles from the fire: 40°F, air at 93% humidity, a 10 mph wind out of the north.

How it got here

Two days of record on a day-51 fire

The record here begins at 2:19pm on 26 Aug and runs to 4:00am on 27 Aug — 14 hours, 5 readings of heat. The fire is on day 51, so the first 49 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.

Animated map of the Stewart Fire across the whole record, with a time bar along the bottom showing energy released and the local date.
The whole record, 21 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

Wed 2:00pmThu 4:00am

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 2 days of record

  1. Map for Wed 26 Aug: flames mark every place that gave off heat that day.

    Wed26 Aug

    First readings

    • 2 heat readings
    • Heat from 2:19pm to 2:19pm
    • Spread 0.2 miles from the recorded point at its furthest
    • Burning through the afternoon
  2. Map for Thu 27 Aug: flames mark every place that gave off heat that day.

    Thu27 Auglatest

    Cooling off

    • 3 heat readings — the most of any day
    • Energy 98% down on the day before
    • Heat from 2:20am to 4:00am
    • Spread 0.3 miles from the recorded point at its furthest
    • Burning through the pre-dawn

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 26 August

    First reported at 3 acres

    3 ac

  2. Wednesday 26 August

    0 acres on record

    0 ac

  3. Wednesday 26 August

    Grew to 3 acres

    3 ac

  4. Wednesday 26 August

    Grew to 35 acres

    35 ac

  5. Thursday 27 August

    Revised to 26 acres

    26 ac

No containment figure has been reported for it yet. No crew count has been published for it yet. It has grown from 3 acres when it was first written down to 26 now. Nothing has looked at it for 1182 hours, and the record still lists it as active.