Maps of Spring Creek Fire, July 3, 2018

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Above: 3-D map of the Spring Creek Fire looking northwest.

(UPDATED at 12:57 p.m. MDT July 3, 2018)

The area where the Spring Creek Fire is located in south-central Colorado is under a Red Flag Warning today. At around noon a weather station near La Veta was recording temperatures in the mid-eighties, 9 percent relative humidity, and winds out of the west at 15 mph. On Wednesday the conditions should be similar, but with slightly higher humidity.

Tuesday afternoon the Incident Management Team changed their reported  size of the fire to 78,941 acres — up from 60,710 earlier today.


(Originally published at 8 a.m. MDT July 3, 2018)

The Spring Creek Fire is burning homes and devastating tens of thousands of acres of private land 17 miles west of Walsenburg, Colorado. San Luis Valley 911 tweeted Monday night that 104 homes have been destroyed in the Forbes Park area.

Since it started June 27 it has blackened 60,710 acres, according to the official information from the Incident Management Teams Monday night. Our VERY UNOFFICIAL estimate is that at least 75,000 acres have burned as of early Tuesday morning.

CLICK HERE to see all of the articles on Wildfire Today about the Spring Creek Fire.

These maps were made with Google Earth using fire perimeter data collected at 12:53 a.m. MDT July 3, 2018 (the red line) by a U.S. Forest Service mapping aircraft. The yellow line was the perimeter about 24 hours before.  We hope they will answer a few questions for local residents about which areas are within the burned perimeter. Of course if they are, it does not mean that the structures have been destroyed. Firefighters have no doubt worked hard to save many.

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Map of the Spring Creek Fire.
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3-D map of the Spring Creek Fire looking southwest.

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3-D map of the Spring Creek Fire looking northeast.
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3-D map of the Spring Creek Fire looking northeast.

 

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Author: Bill Gabbert

After working full time in wildland fire for 33 years, he continues to learn, and strives to be a Student of Fire.

3 thoughts on “Maps of Spring Creek Fire, July 3, 2018”

  1. I used to live in the ghost town on top of Old La Veta Pass. I had heard that the church was saved, but I’ve been unable to get information about the rest of the buildings. We lived in the old dance hall across the road from the train depot. Do you know if any other buildings survived?

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  2. Do you have information on area east of Loren Albright Ranch west of Hiway 12?

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  3. Interesting about Forbes Ranch area. In 2006 on the Mato Vega fire, we had to get all sorts of permission and had to be escorted into the area by security in order to set up a repeater and ground-aircraft link.

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