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Garfield County, Colorado

Sweetwater Fire

Burning 8.8 miles north-east of Carbonate and 13.6 miles north-west of Dotsero, since Monday 24 August.

Map of Colorado. The Sweetwater Fire burns 123 miles from Denver, and 123 miles from the state capital, Denver.
The fire sits 123 miles from Denver.

0

acres burned so far

52

days burning so far

—

no share of the perimeter reported held yet

The official record as of 3:20am today

The Sweetwater Fire is on the interagency wildfire record at 0 acres in Garfield 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.

52 days

on record — first written down on Monday 24 August at 8:22am local time, starting at 0 acres.

39.810, -107.197lat, lon

is the official point of origin on the interagency record.

Conditions measured 16.7 miles from the fire: 29°F, air at 87% humidity, a 7 mph wind out of the north.

Another fire is burning inside the same view. Sweetwater Lake Fire started on Wednesday 2 September, 2.8 miles south-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.

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 0 acres

    0 ac