Colorado transportation officials temporarily closed Interstate 70 west of Vail on Wednesday for several hours because of a wildfire. The Red Canyon Fire burned 10 acres in Eagle County. At 5:15 p ...

Over one-third of Colorado is forested acreage — 24 million acres of the state’s 66.48 million acres — managed by a variety of local, state and federal entities. The Colorado State Forest Service and ...

A wildfire last summer that burned 700 acres near the popular Twin Lakes recreation area near Leadville was determined to have been caused by a campfire that had not been properly extinguished. Across ...

GRAND JUNCTION, Colo. (KJCT) - A wildfire ignited earlier this week in Gunnison County. The fire was reported Monday near Illinois Creek near County Road 742. The Taylor Park Reservoir— a ...

Those include three fires in 2020 — the Cameron Peak, East Troublesome and Pine Gulch fires — which burned a collective 541,732 acres across parts of western Colorado and the foothills.

In the 23 years, the tool cataloged over 25,000 forest management projects on 1.1 million acres of Colorado forest. The majority — 900,577 acres — were on land managed by the U.S. Forest Service.