Elk Springs Fire
The Elk Springs Fire was reported on July 26, 2014 in Moffat County, Colorado and burned 437 acres. It was declared out on August 8, 2014. The cause is listed as natural.
- Size
- 437 acres
- Contained
- 100%
- Discovered
- July 26, 2014
- Personnel
- 6
Map
Perimeters are published for fires from 2020 on; the map shows this fire’s point of origin. Point of origin 40.330, -108.428.
The incident
- Size
- 437 acres
- Containment
- 100%
- Discovered
- July 26, 2014 at 3:42 PM MDT
- Contained
- July 29, 2014 at 4:00 PM MDT
- Controlled
- August 1, 2014 at 4:00 PM MDT
- Declared out
- August 8, 2014 at 6:00 PM MDT
- Cause
- Natural
- County
- Moffat County
- State
- Colorado
- Land ownership at origin
- BLM
- Personnel assigned
- 6
- Estimated cost to date
- $300,000
- Incident type
- Wildfire
- Unique fire identifier
- 2014-COWRD-000252
- IRWIN identifier
- 58A7BB1B-6A0E-41AA-8CAF-CC4149BD7F21
From the incident teams’ reports
The status summaries (ICS-209 forms) the incident teams filed: 4, from July 27, 2014 to July 30, 2014. These are the teams’ own estimates, written while the incident was running, and personnel is totaled from the resources each report lists. A fact the reports leave blank is not shown, and a zero on the form is treated as blank.
- Most personnel assigned
- 87 on July 27, 2014
- Cost reported by the teams
- $300,000, in 2014 dollars
- Cause on the reports
- Lightning or other natural
- Primary fuel model reported
- Chaparral (6 feet)
- Suppression strategy reported
- Monitor
Acres reported by day
Reported acres by day, as a table
| Day | Acres | Change from the day before |
|---|---|---|
| Jul 27, 2014 | 437 | |
| Jul 28, 2014 | 437 | 0 |
| Jul 29, 2014 | 437 | 0 |
| Jul 30, 2014 | 437 | 0 |
Weather in the area
This fire is no longer listed as current. The forecast for Rangely, CO covers the area today.
Nearby
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Incident record from the National Interagency Fire Center’s Wildland Fire Interagency Geospatial Services (WFIGS), as the incident’s managers report it; last updated August 9, 2014 at 1:09 PM MDT. Identifier 2014-COWRD-000252.
Incident figures from ICS-209-PLUS: St. Denis, Lise A., Karen C. Short, Kathryn McConnell, Maxwell C. Cook, Nathan P. Mietkiewicz, Mollie Buckland and Jennifer K. Balch, 2023, All-hazards dataset mined from the US National Incident Management System 1999-2020, Scientific Data 10, 112, doi.org/10.1038/s41597-023-01955-0; data on figshare, doi.org/10.6084/m9.figshare.19858927.v3, licensed CC BY 4.0. This site matched each incident to the fire by the dataset’s own links where it has them, and otherwise by name, start date, state and size, and left out figures too large to be possible for a fire of its size.