It will eventually get down right to some of your backyards,” operations section chief Travis Lipp said at a community meeting for the Elk fire in Lake City on Friday night. “We have the plans in ...

See more of our trusted coverage when you search. Prefer Newsweek on Google to see more of our trusted coverage when you search. The Aspen Acres Fire in southern Colorado has grown to more than 91,000 ...

Denver7 has been tracking each detail since several wildfires broke out in Colorado in June and July. Here is the latest.

Wildfires in Colorado have scorched more than 242,000 acres of land, more than twice the size of Denver, as of late July, surpassing the state’s average annual burn area of 237,000 acres. The fires, ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... Colorado’s four most active wildfires — the Aspen Acres, Gold Mountain, Elk and Willow fires — have together consumed nearly 150,000 acres, or 233 square ...

A third-party air-quality summary grouped the Snyder, Babylon, Ferris and Gold Mountain fires and placed their combined scale above 235,000 acres. Colorado, Utah and federal incident records checked ...

Wildfires have burned more than 7 million acres in 2026, a new record, and there are still a lot of hot, dry days left this ...

Polis announced Sunday that he has submitted a formal request for a federal disaster declaration that would open Colorado to ...