Colorado
Colorado wildfire map today
Active wildfires in Colorado right now, the share of Colorado homes in the wildland-urban interface, and where to find official information. The list and counts come from the federal wildfire feed; the WUI figures come from the SILVIS Lab at the University of Wisconsin–Madison. The active-fire data refreshes every 15 minutes.
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Active wildfires
212,100 ac
Total acres
Fire data updated 2 minutes ago
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Live Colorado wildfire map
Fire markers show active wildfires reported across Colorado, refreshed every 15 minutes.
Active fires in Colorado now
- Aspen Acres
- Ferris
- Gold Mountain
- Willow
- P-L Gulch
- Sheep Head
- Doe Canyon
- Elk
- Fishhook
- Green Ridge
Homes in the wildland-urban interface
About 43% of Colorado’s homes sit inside the wildland-urban interface — roughly 1.1 million of 2.5 million statewide, according to the SILVIS Lab’s 2020 dataset. The share varies sharply along the Front Range: from about 32% in Arapahoe County, southeast of Denver, to about 83% in Douglas County, between Denver and Colorado Springs.
The five Colorado counties with the most homes in the wildland-urban interface:
- El Paso County
- Douglas County
- Jefferson County
- Arapahoe County
- Boulder County
Being in the interface is a description of geography, not a forecast of fire — it captures how close a building sits to vegetation that can burn. These classifications change slowly; the figures here come from the SILVIS Lab’s most recent revision of the 1990–2020 dataset, released February 2025.
Official Colorado sources
- Colorado Division of Fire Prevention and Control — dfpc.colorado.gov
- Colorado Division of Homeland Security and Emergency Management — dhsem.colorado.gov