Awatchfire

Montrose County, Colorado

Stinking Spring Fire

Burning 5.8 miles north of Nucla and 9.2 miles north of Naturita, since Tuesday 25 August.

Map of Colorado. The Stinking Spring Fire burns 219 miles from Denver, and 219 miles from the state capital, Denver.
The fire sits 219 miles from Denver.

0

acres burned so far

50

days burning so far

—

no share of the perimeter reported held yet

The official record as of 10:09am today

The Stinking Spring Fire is on the interagency wildfire record at 0 acres in Montrose 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.

Undetermined

The cause has not yet been determined.

50 days

on record — first written down on Tuesday 25 August at 2:56pm local time, starting at 0 acres.

38.350, -108.542lat, lon

is the official point of origin on the interagency record.

Conditions measured 8.1 miles from the fire: 54°F, air at 54% humidity, a 12 mph wind out of the north-east.

Six other fires are burning inside the same view. Pack Trail Fire started on Saturday 12 September, 1.7 miles west, and has reached 0 acres. Fork Fire started on Monday 24 August, 1.8 miles north-west, and has reached 0 acres. Adobe Fire started on Monday 24 August, 1.9 miles south-east, and has reached 0 acres. Black Pinto Fire started on Monday 24 August, 3.0 miles south-east, and has reached 0 acres. Goat Fire started on Monday 24 August, 3.5 miles east, and has reached 0 acres. Coal Canyon Fire started on Sunday 23 August, 4.4 miles east, 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. Tuesday 25 August

    First reported

  2. Tuesday 25 August

    0 acres on record

    0 ac