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Archuleta County, Colorado

Weminuche creek Fire

Burning 4.0 miles south-west of Piedra and 15.9 miles north-west of Pagosa Springs, since Sunday 23 August.

Map of Colorado. The Weminuche creek Fire burns 206 miles from Denver, and 206 miles from the state capital, Denver.
The fire sits 206 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 10:09am today

The Weminuche creek Fire is on the interagency wildfire record at 0 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.

52 days

on record — first written down on Sunday 23 August at 1:50pm local time, starting at 0 acres.

Type 5 Incident

is the incident-management level assigned to it.

37.409, -107.228lat, lon

is the official point of origin on the interagency record.

Conditions measured 13.3 miles from the fire: 55°F, air at 52% humidity, a 3 mph wind out of the south-west.

Two other fires are burning inside the same view. Medicine Creek Fire started on Friday 28 August, 9.0 miles west, and has reached 0 acres. Snow Springs Fire started 1359 minutes after this one, 9.2 miles south, and has reached 1 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. Sunday 23 August

    First reported

  2. Tuesday 25 August

    0 acres on record

    0 ac