Above: Varying burn intensities on the Beaver Creek Fire.
The spread of the Beaver Creek Fire in northern Colorado one mile south of the Wyoming border has slowed over the last week. It has been listed at 13,275 acres since June 30 and according to the incident commander is 5 percent conplete after burning for 18 days. The strategy is not to put it out, but to manage it for “multiple objectives”.
The fire is 17 miles northwest of Walden, Colorado and 52 miles southwest of Laramie, Wyoming.
Within the last 48 hours the fire received about 0.2 inches of rain but the fuels should dry out today, aided by a 9 mph southwest wind gusting up to 23 mph.
People who are extremely worried about forests attacked by beetles and assume fire intensity will be greatly enhanced in those areas, should examine the photo above that was taken within the fire area.
Jay Esperance’s Type 2 incident management team will transition to the West Slope Type 3 Team B on Thursday.
The photos were provided by the Medicine Bow-Routt National Forests and Thunder Basin National Grassland. Except as noted the photographer and dates taken were not given.
More information about the Beaver Creek Fire.
