The Town of Estes Park 

Wildfire Information Resource Page

Updated Wednesday, July 2, 2008, 1:25 pm.

There are no fires near, or around, the Estes Park area.

Active wildfires in Colorado are: None  

New for 2008 is the use of Red Flag Warnings to identify areas of unusually dry and windy conditions with low humidity.

"Wildfires in Colorado are a natural part of our ecosystems and help restore and maintain healthy forests." Colorado State Forest Service. See http://csfs.colostate.edu/wildfire.htm

For local emergency information, see http://www.larimer.org/emergency/
Larimer County and the Town of Estes Park have both lifted fire bans as of 8/6/07.

For details on Rocky Mountain wildfires,  The Rocky Mountain Area Coordination Center at http://gacc.nifc.gov/rmcc/ has up-to-date information on conditions in Wyoming, Colorado, Nebraska, Kansas.

For information on wildfires across the nation and links to incident web pages as they develop, check http://www.nifc.gov/fire_info/nfn.htm. There are several other wildfire resources linked to this page. Another valuable national incident reporting site is http://www.inciweb.org/ which is the National Incident Information System.

A national wildfire map is also useful to have for geographical perspective. Another very helpful resource is this NOAA (National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration) event imagery ... best when the appropriate image has been selected. Note that your "back" button will not return you to this page, so you may want to bookmark this page before you leave.

Also available from NOAA is this "hot spot" and "smoke plume" viewer: http://www.firedetect.noaa.gov/viewer.htm

Then NOAA also predicts duration of smoke plumes http://www.weather.gov/aq/sectors/conusLoop.php

Postings to this page may not be made over weekends.

This web page is being maintained by staff of the Town of Estes Park and the Estes Park Convention & Visitors Bureau.
 

Fire Bans

1. Larimer County Fire Ban: None

2. Town of Estes Park Fire Ban: None