Started on Jul 21, 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
- 45 miles northwest of Meeker, CO
- Cause
- Natural
- People working on it
- 42 people
- Complexity
- Type 3 IncidentOfficial scale from 5 to 1: a Type 1 is the most complex in the country.
- What's burning
- Brush (2 feet)
- How it's behaving
- MinimalCreeping — Moves slowly, hugging the ground.Smoldering — Burning without flame, in the ground or in roots. Can flare up days later.
- Jurisdiction
- BLM · 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.
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 has been burning in Colorado for 92 days. So far it has affected roughly 3,042 acres — about 12 km². The perimeter is 100% contained.
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 3,430,104 hectares have burned so far in 2026 — 37% below the two-decade average. Data from Copernicus GWIS.
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