P-L Gulch Fire (Colorado)
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Imagery: Sentinel-2 (Copernicus). Drag to compare smoke vs. infrared.
Heat detections: NASA FIRMS (last 48h).
Quick facts
- Location
- 19 Miles SW from Meeker, CO
- Cause
- Human
- Personnel
- 3
- Complexity
- Type 4 Incident
- Fuel
- Brush (2 feet)
- Behavior
- Minimal, Smoldering
- Jurisdiction
- BLM · Federal land
Burning for 15 days with an average daily growth of approximately 105 acres, the 1,580-acre P-L Gulch Fire 19 miles southwest of Meeker, Colorado, has now reached 100 percent containment. The human-caused blaze on federal land within Rio Blanco County was managed by a Type 4 Incident Command, with personnel scaling back to just three individuals as fire behavior was reduced to minimal, smoldering activity in two-foot brush.
Suppression efforts for the Bureau of Land Management incident ultimately totaled $4,306,000 in costs.
In context
This wildfire burned in Colorado for 26 days. In total it burned about 1,580 acres — around 6.4 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 3,133,897 hectares have burned so far in 2026 — 43% below the two-decade average. Data from Copernicus GWIS.
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