310 Fire (CO)
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🟢 green = vegetation
🟤 red/brown = burned
🟠 orange = active fire
Imagery: Sentinel-2 (Copernicus). Drag to compare smoke vs. infrared.
Heat detections: NASA FIRMS (last 48h).
Quick facts
- Location
- 1 Miles E from Battlement Mesa, CO
- Cause
- Human
- Personnel
- 53
- Complexity
- Type 3 Incident
- Fuel
- Brush (2 feet)
- Behavior
- Extreme, Torching, Uphill Runs
- Jurisdiction
- Private land
Fueling an active human-caused response just one mile east of Battlement Mesa, Colorado, the 310 Fire has torn across 600 acres of private land in Garfield County since igniting on August 6, 2026. Satellites tracking the perimeter have registered 11 heat detections over the past 48 hours, highlighting the rapid expansion of the incident. On the ground, the fire behavior has been classified as extreme, featuring aggressive torching and intense uphill runs through two-foot brush.
A Type 3 Incident management team consisting of 53 personnel is currently assigned to the blaze, working to establish containment against zero percent progress. Financial expenditures for suppressing the incident have already reached $1,500,000. The broader wildfire landscape in the country shows 2,664,784 hectares burned so far in 2026, marking a figure 51% below the two-decade average. This activity unfolds within the region's typical fire season, which runs annually from June to October.
In context
This wildfire has been burning in Colorado for 2 days. So far it has affected roughly 600 acres — about 2.4 km². Crews report no containment yet, so the fire can still spread.
In the Northern Hemisphere, wildfire activity usually peaks during the warm, dry months — roughly May through October.
The bigger picture in United States
Across United States, roughly 2,702,782 hectares have burned so far in 2026 — 51% below the two-decade average. Data from Copernicus GWIS.
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