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Mesa County, Colorado

Yellowbird Fire

Burning 23.8 miles north-west of Nucla and 26.3 miles north-west of Naturita, since Saturday 12 September.

Map of Colorado. The Yellowbird Fire burns 224 miles from Denver, and 224 miles from the state capital, Denver.
The fire sits 224 miles from Denver.

0

acres burned so far

32

days burning so far

—

no share of the perimeter reported held yet

The official record as of 10:09am today

The Yellowbird Fire is on the interagency wildfire record at 0 acres in Mesa 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.

32 days

on record — first written down on Saturday 12 September at 3:02pm local time, starting at 0 acres.

38.564, -108.772lat, lon

is the official point of origin on the interagency record.

Conditions measured 16.7 miles from the fire: 44°F, air at 72% humidity, a 10 mph wind out of the north-east.

Six other fires are burning inside the same view. Where Fire started 1180 minutes after this one, 4.4 miles south, and has reached 0 acres. Moon Canyon Fire started 8 minutes before this one, 4.8 miles south-west, and has reached 0 acres. Azul Mesa Fire started 1163 minutes after this one, 4.8 miles south-west, and has reached 0 acres. Blue Creek Fire started 9 minutes before this one, 5.0 miles south-west, and has reached 0 acres. Blue Mesa Fire started 21 minutes before this one, 6.7 miles south-west, and has reached 0 acres. Sewemup Fire started 17 minutes before this one, 8.1 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.

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. Saturday 12 September

    First reported

  2. Saturday 12 September

    0 acres on record

    0 ac