Started on Jun 27, 2026.
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Green: vegetationBrown: already burnedOrange: fire right nowSentinel-2 · Copernicus
Red dots: heat detected by satellite in the last 48h. NASA FIRMS
Quick facts
- Location
- 7 miles east of Cahone, CO
- Cause
- Natural
- People working on it
- 20 people
- Complexity
- Type 5 IncidentOfficial scale from 5 to 1: a Type 1 is the most complex in the country.
- What's burning
- Timber (Grass and Understory)
- How it's behaving
- MinimalSmoldering — Burning without flame, in the ground or in roots. Can flare up days later.
- Jurisdiction
- USFS · Federal land
Glossary: what each term means
Barely moving. Low, thin smoke.
Burning without flame, in the ground or in roots. Can flare up days later.
Moves slowly, hugging the ground.
Spreads with low, steady flames.
Spreading evenly and steadily, with visible flame.
Fast and unpredictable.
Runs along the ground much faster than a person walks.
Grows along the sides, not head-on.
Moves against the wind or downhill, which makes it slower.
Climbs into the treetops and jumps crown to crown. It can't be attacked from the ground.
Climbs into the crowns in bursts and drops back down.
Whole trees flaring up like torches.
Single scattered trees flaring up whole, like torches.
Whole clumps of trees flaring at once.
Wind carries embers through the air and starts new fires ahead of the front: that is how a fire jumps a road or a firebreak.
The wind pushes it in long runs in one direction.
The ones marked ● are the behaviors that make a fire harder to stop. They are not a warning or an instruction: they are the description written by the agency in charge. For decisions, always follow your emergency services.
Burning across Montezuma County, the Ferris Fire near Cahone, Colorado, has run its course over forty-four days, averaging approximately 1,475 acres of expansion per day in timber consisting of grass and understory. Sparked naturally on June 27, 2026, the federal blaze on USFS land grew to encompass 64,881 acres under the management of a Type 4 Incident Command team comprised of 20 personnel.
With containment now reaching 100 percent, the fire behavior has diminished to minimal and smoldering conditions. Suppression efforts ultimately accumulated a total cost of $44,500,278 for this Type 4 Incident.
This event unfolds against a broader national backdrop where 2,761,076 hectares have burned so far in 2026, a figure tracking 50 percent below the country's two-decade average. In this region, the typical fire season spans from June to October.
In context
This wildfire burned in Colorado for 63 days. In total it burned about 64,881 acres — around 263 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 3,362,441 hectares have burned so far in 2026 — 39% below the two-decade average. Data from Copernicus GWIS.
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