Wildland Fires 2026
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Yvonne
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Dang, I used to hike and camp a lot in that area. Hiking up Mount Holly and Delano Peak, watching the Mountain Goats, so sad. The Tushars were always my summer escape from the summer heat in the St. George area.
In 2021, I was camping up there with friends. We constantly smelled some sort of smoke. Took a while to figure out where it was coming from. Some idiots had just tossed still-hot campfire coals on the ground, and everything was smoldering, almost creating a root fire beneath the nearby trees.
We used almost all of our 10-gallon water containers to douse it, but got it out. This was a super close call.
In 2021, I was camping up there with friends. We constantly smelled some sort of smoke. Took a while to figure out where it was coming from. Some idiots had just tossed still-hot campfire coals on the ground, and everything was smoldering, almost creating a root fire beneath the nearby trees.
We used almost all of our 10-gallon water containers to douse it, but got it out. This was a super close call.
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This comes just 2 years after the 18K acre Silver King Fire on the E side of the range. The speed and intensity of this fire have been devastating. For those not familiar with the range, this is what it used to look like:
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Three firefighters died fighting the Snyder Fire along the western CO/UT border overnight as that fire merged with several others into an absolute monster. Fruita/Grand Junction are about to get a rocket of smoke for the foreseeable future, unfortunately, while it looks like the northern part of CO is going to get inundated with it, too.
And the Gold Mountain Fire opened up just north of downtown Ouray and forced the closure of US-550 inbetween there and Ridgway.
Scary stuff. 97 yesterday with 8% humidity and 20-30 mph sustained winds all across the state and pretty similar today, no real rain in the forecast for a week, either.
It's about to get really ugly the way it always looked it would when winter simply never arrived.
And the Gold Mountain Fire opened up just north of downtown Ouray and forced the closure of US-550 inbetween there and Ridgway.
Scary stuff. 97 yesterday with 8% humidity and 20-30 mph sustained winds all across the state and pretty similar today, no real rain in the forecast for a week, either.
It's about to get really ugly the way it always looked it would when winter simply never arrived.