Doe Canyon Fire (CO)
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Fire (SWIR)
Infrared / SWIR (right): sees through smoke.
🟢 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
- 7 Miles E from Cahone, CO
- Complexity
- Type 3 Incident
- Fuel
- Tall Grass (2.5 feet)
- Behavior
- Extreme, Short-range Spotting, Flanking
- Jurisdiction
- USFS · Federal land
Spanning 19 days of activity, the Doe Canyon Fire near Cahone, Colorado, has maintained a steady expansion rate of approximately 55 acres per day, now encompassing 1,046 acres of federal land. The blaze, currently managed as a Type 3 Incident by the USFS, remains entirely uncontained as it burns through 2.5-foot tall grass.
Fire behavior is characterized by extreme conditions, including flanking and short-range spotting. With $25,000 already committed to suppression efforts, the Type 3 Team continues to monitor the active front seven miles east of Cahone in Dolores County.
In context
This wildfire burned in Colorado for 53 days. In total it burned about 1,046 acres — around 4.2 km².
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 3,021,962 hectares have burned so far in 2026 — 45% below the two-decade average. Data from Copernicus GWIS.
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