Wildland Fires 2026

[Bob]

Cottonwood fire, man caused .... burning from I-15 to Hwy 89, Circleville, Marysville on evac alert. Has burned over Eagle Mt ski area.... It is decimating the Tushar Mtn area. Map is 6/24

 

[Yvonne]

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.

 

[Bob]

Update 92000 acres... almost megafire status

 

[kwc]

@Bob … how close is this to Bryce and Zion?

 

[Bob]

Quite a ways... They are to the SE. Fire is burning the other way. Here is the smoke map:

 

[fossana]

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:

 

[Yvonne]

so devastating and scary!!
Been up there so many times on camping and hiking trips.

 

[wick e. pedia]

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.

 

[Bob]

Yep to many to folllow. New starts scattered around AZ as well. I'd suggest to go to app.watchduty.org they are the most up to date.

No info on the deaths yet, but they deployed their shelters which is a last ditch effort....unfortunately.

We have recieved 1 3/4 inches of rain thru the region here....much needed.

 

[Rockskipper]

I know the area pretty well where the Snyder Fire's burning as I did some geology research there (stratigraphy and paleocurrents). Still windy here in W. Colorado. A friend's 75 year old maple came down yesterday right in town (Glenwood Spgs.) We had some big winds that felt like 50 mph or thereabouts. Very sad to hear about the firefighters.

Here's Grand Junction, CO right now

https://www.westernslopenow.com/tower-cam/

 

[Bob]

Babylon Fire is affecting Needles area in Canyonlands (Closed), Dark Canyon and Woodenshoe. Hashed area is closed.

 

[Devin]

Babylon Fire is affecting Needles area in Canyonlands (Closed), Dark Canyon and Woodenshoe. Hashed area is closed.View attachment 150714

The current map says it's made it to within steps of Beef Basin Road. God, if it hops that...

 

[Devin]