Keystone Fire (Colorado)
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Heat detections: NASA FIRMS (last 48h).
Quick facts
- Location
- 45 Miles NW from Meeker, CO
- Cause
- Natural
- Personnel
- 42
- Complexity
- Type 3 Incident
- Fuel
- Brush (2 feet)
- Behavior
- Minimal, Creeping, Smoldering
- Jurisdiction
- BLM · Federal land
Averaging 152 acres per day over its 20-day duration, the naturally caused Keystone Fire has scorched 3,042 acres of federal brush land overseen by the BLM in Rio Blanco County, Colorado. Located 45 miles northwest of Meeker, the incident is managed by a Type 4 Incident Commander with 42 personnel responding to the Type 3 Incident.
Fire behavior is currently characterized as minimal, creeping, and smoldering within two-foot brush fuels. The wildfire has reached 100 percent containment, bringing total containment to the 3,042-acre footprint with suppression costs totaling $2,200,000.
This event occurs within the region's typical fire season, which runs from June to October. Nationally, 2,761,076 hectares have burned so far in 2026, marking a figure that is 50 percent below the two-decade average.
In context
This wildfire burned in Colorado for 22 days. In total it burned about 3,042 acres — around 12 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 3,178,795 hectares have burned so far in 2026 — 42% below the two-decade average. Data from Copernicus GWIS.
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