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La Plata County, Colorado

Youngs Canyon Fire

Burning 15.3 miles north of Bayfield and 15.9 miles north-east of Durango, since Saturday 29 August.

Map of Colorado. The Youngs Canyon Fire burns 221 miles from Denver, and 221 miles from the state capital, Denver.
The fire sits 221 miles from Denver.

0

acres burned so far

4

hours burning so far

no share of the perimeter reported held yet

The official record as of 12:38pm today

The Youngs Canyon Fire is on the interagency wildfire record at 0 acres in La Plata 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.

4 hours

on record — first written down on Saturday 29 August at 8:40am local time, starting at 0 acres.

Type 5 Incident

is the incident-management level assigned to it.

37.442, -107.690lat, lon

is the official point of origin on the interagency record.

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.