The Lee Fire near Meeker is now over 116,000 acres, fire maps show, and has surpassed the Spring Creek Fire of 2018 as the state's fifth-largest wildfire. Over 1,000 firefighters and a dozen aircraft ...

GRAND JUNCTION, Colo. (KKCO) - Here is the latest on the wildfires burning in western Colorado. Map updated as of 3:00 p.m. on 8/12/2025. The Lee Fire has become the 5th largest wildfire when compared ...

Rain showers will start Sunday across Colorado, including on the drought-stricken Western Slope, where multiple wildfires are burning on hundreds of square miles, and continue through at least midweek ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... Larimer County officials lifted mandatory evacuation orders a few hours after a new wildfire started burning in the Arapaho and Roosevelt National Forests on ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... A new wildfire burning on Colorado’s Western Slope added to the handful of blazes that consumed thousands more acres on Tuesday, forcing evacuations in ...

Residents of Meeker, near where the fifth-largest wildfire in Colorado’s history has raged throughout August, woke up Friday to a cooler morning than they’ve felt in weeks. But smoke from the ...

Colorado Parks and Wildlife (CPW) wants to remind the Colorado outdoor community that the Colorado Trail Explorer (COTREX) mobile app displays active fire alerts, including wildfires and prescribed ...

Fueled by hot summer weather and persistent drought conditions across the western half of the state, wildfires as of Aug. 8 had burned more than 100,000 acres in Colorado in 2025. By that time it was ...

One of the several wildfires burning in western Colorado was caused by an abandoned campfire, federal fire officials said this weekend. As a result, hikers, campers, and hunters are being warned to ...