2026 Garfield County, Colorado Wildfires

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1 Active Fires
603 Acres Burning Slightly smaller than Central Park
3 2026 Season Fires ▼ -1 (-25%) vs same period last year
963 2026 Season Acres ▼ -1,106 (-53%) vs same period last year

Newest wildfires in Garfield County

Aug 6 Started 603 acres Slightly smaller than Central Park 464 football fields 310 Fire
Jul 28 Started 44 acres 34 football fields Stove Canyon Fire
Jun 23 Started 316 acres 243 football fields Dry Creek Fire

Largest wildfires in Garfield County this season

603 Acres Slightly smaller than Central Park 464 football fields 310 Fire Battlement Mesa
316 Acres 243 football fields Dry Creek Fire Rifle
44 Acres 34 football fields Stove Canyon Fire Loma

All 2026 Garfield County Fires · 3 fires

A fire is listed here when it is located in Garfield County. Each complex is counted once, through its parent: the parent carries the complex's acres, and its member fires are listed beneath it without being counted again. A fire that crossed a county line is listed with the acres that burned in Garfield County, not its whole reported size. A fire located elsewhere that burned into Garfield County is listed too, at its Garfield County acres, and is not added to the Garfield County fire counts. County lines come from a different boundary dataset than state lines, so Garfield County's acres are counted along county lines and can differ a little at the edges from the figures on the state page.

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Fire Start date Containment Status Acres Center Ignition point
310 Fire Aug 6, 2026 100% Active 603 39.4407, -107.9679 39.4448, -107.9855
Dry Creek Fire Jun 23, 2026 100% Inactive 316 39.4846, -107.7420 39.4827, -107.7496
Stove Canyon Fire Jul 28, 2026 — Inactive 44 39.3918, -108.7583 39.3913, -108.7528
Totals 2026 Season Fires 3 Active Fires 1 Acres Burning 603 2026 Season Acres 963

Land cover · Garfield County 2026

Burned acres in Garfield County for the 2026 season, split by the kind of land that burned. Each figure counts the LANDFIRE 30 m cells inside a fire's latest mapped perimeter. The Fires tab carries the reported season acreage.

Forest ownership · Garfield County 2026

Burned forest acres in Garfield County for the 2026 season, split by who owns the land. Owners are mapped for forestland, so every figure here counts burned cells whose LANDFIRE lifeform is Tree. The Fires tab carries the season acreage this site reports.

Burn severity · Garfield County 2026

Burned acres in Garfield County for the 2026 season, split by how severely each cell of ground burned. Each figure counts the 30 m cells inside a fire's latest mapped perimeter, measured from satellite imagery. The Fires tab carries the reported season acreage.

Severity comes from the differenced normalized burn ratio (dNBR), the same index the federal burn severity programs publish, classified with the standard thresholds.

This is an initial assessment. Trees keep dying for months after a burn, so severity in forest reads conservative until the official assessments arrive after the season.

Search Fires

🔥 310 Fire Active 2026
Started: Aug 6 603 acre 100% contained
🔥 Stove Canyon Fire 2026
Started: Jul 28 44 acre
🔥 Dry Creek Fire 2026
Started: Jun 23 316 acre 100% contained