Mt. Carmel Fire (Colorado)
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Fire (SWIR)
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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
- Baca County
- Cause
- Natural
- Jurisdiction
- USFS · Federal land
Spanning 1,900 acres of federal land in Baca County, Colorado, the active natural Mt. Carmel Fire has been burning since July 23, 2026.
Firefighting efforts on the incident are being managed by the USFS.
In context
This wildfire burned in Colorado for 1 day. In total it burned about 1,900 acres — around 7.7 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 3,186,142 hectares have burned so far in 2026 — 42% below the two-decade average. Data from Copernicus GWIS.
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