Colorado wildfire map for hunters: fires now and old burns

The edges of fires burning now, and of every recorded wildfire since 2000 with its name and year, laid over unit boundaries and land ownership.

Open the fire map All the map does

What it shows

• Fires burning now, in red, from the national fire map.
• Past wildfires since 2000, each with its name and the year it burned.
• Unit lines and land ownership under them, so you can see how much of your unit a fire has touched.

Why a hunter looks at fires

• A fire burning now can close the ground. Forests close areas around an active fire, and the roads into them, sometimes for the whole season. The forest's own closure order is the rule: check it before you drive.
• A recent burn can be closed too, for falling trees and flooding, for a year or more after the fire is out.
• An old burn is different country from the timber around it. It grows back as open ground, grass and young trees, with standing dead timber and deadfall that slow a walk.

The map shows where fire has been. It does not say an animal uses a burn, and it does not show closure orders.

Where it comes from

National Interagency Fire Center: current fire perimeters and the national record of past ones. A perimeter is the outer edge of a fire. Ground inside it may not have burned at all, or may have burned lightly.