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 ...

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 ...

Scripps News Denver is providing you with the latest updates on several wildfires that have charred thousands of acres and damaged infrastructure across Colorado's Western Slope DENVER, Colo. — High ...

Map updated as of 3:00 p.m. on 8/12/2025. The Lee Fire has become the 5th largest wildfire when compared to other wildfires in the state. According to the Colorado Division of Fire Prevention and ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... Colorado’s fifth-largest wildfire on record is 90% contained as rain showers and thunderstorms continue across the Western Slope, fire officials said. As of ...

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 ...

DENVER (KDVR) — The Lee Fire burning on Colorado’s Western Slope is officially one of the largest that the state has ever seen. According to the Colorado Division of Fire Prevention and Control, four ...

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 ...

DENVER — One of several fires that sparked in Rio Blanco County is now 100% contained. The 2,073-acre Crosho Fire, first reported on Aug. 11, burned in the Routt National Forest. The cause of the ...